Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.