It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.