Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

The comforter's head never aches.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .