You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.