Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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

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

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.