Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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