You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

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

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.