Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Renown and repose do not go together.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.