Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him