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.

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

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.