The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

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.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.