The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.