Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Only the educated are free.