Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.