Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.