Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.