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

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.