You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

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

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.