Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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

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

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.