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

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.