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

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.