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

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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