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

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.