Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

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

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to