It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.