A danger forseen is half avoided.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.