Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.