Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.