Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Necessitynever made a good bargain.