Discord gives a relish to concord.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out