Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.