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

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A language is like living skin itself.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

They know enough who know how to learn.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.