To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

It's good to shut up sometimes.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.