Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

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

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

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

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.