Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The first duty of love is to listen.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.