Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.