Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Habit: the shackles of the free

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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