Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.