Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.