Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

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

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.