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

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'