A room without books is a body without soul

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.