If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

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

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.