Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.