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

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.