A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.