Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

No strength within, no respect without.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.