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

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.