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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou