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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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

God made time, but man made haste.

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.