Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.