Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.