Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

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

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.