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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…