It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

God made time, but man made haste.