Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.