Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Nothing is a permanent except change.