You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.