Freedom is the cement that binds nations together.
Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny.
The wise man smiles with approval as he watches other people committing the sins and follies he himself had to commit in order to become wise.
It's much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
We're all in favour of progress, providing we can have it without change.
Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.
Put all your eggs in one basket - and watch the basket.
A political convention is called to decide who's going to be the life of the party.
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but all agree that it is old enough to know better.
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
When a man points a finger at someone else, He should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Every time you try to smother truth, two others get their breath.
Worry is a fast getaway on a wooden horse.
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
We are all descendants of successful hunters.
You are young as long as you keep one reason for living. Today we have a thousand reasons to live.
People who gossip usually end up in their own mouth traps.
Character is like the foundation of a house it is below the surface.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth or a wig. But how many will own up to a lack of humour.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Baseball games are like snowflakes no two are the same.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through.
We have become economic hypochondriacs. You get a wiggle in statistic, and everyone runs to get the thermometer.
People change and forget to tell each other.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came later in life.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one exception, is composed of others.
Anything scarce is valuable - PRAISE for example.
So long as a woman has twinkles in her eyes, no man notices whether she has wrinkles under them.
CLASSIC: A book which people praise but do not read.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
It is not the Minister of Culture that you worry about. It is the culture of the minister.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others. A bore is one who talks to you about himself. A brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
The love of truth lies in the root of humour.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
For every gift or sacrifice, there are two kinds of gratitude. The sudden kind we feel for what we take. The larger kind we feel for what we give.
We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn't have that we neglected to give them what we did have.
When you try to make an impression, the chances are that is the impression you will make.
Everyone wants bus service to their door, but no one wants a bus route on their street.
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, AND THE FUTURE WORTH LIVING FOR.
When something goes wrong, it is important not to talk who is to blame but about who is going to fix it.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Equality is a futile pursuit. Equality of opportunity is a noble one.
The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you were wearing mink.
The best humour is always kindly. The worst and the cheapest is malicious.
The chance of things going wrong with a golf shot goes up in direct proportion to the number of people watching.
Nobody likes hard work more than the person who pays for it.
There are good reasons to believe that if you give the government, or anyone else, breathing time, they will spend the time breathing.
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of the incidents as disasters.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time you have got.
How can any man be sad and watch a sunset?
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
We are being careless with history unless we assume that whoever has power, sooner or later use it to the fullest.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make it's own way, completely on it's own feet.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
REAL charity doesn't care if it's tax deductable or not.
THEY also have rights who dare defend them.
There is a wonder in reading braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
In certain parts of the world, people still pray in streets. In this countrym they're called pedestrians.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Every man regards his own life as the New Years Eve of time.
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
In a mere half century, movies have gone from silent to unspeakable.
The pleasure we derive from doing favours is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.
The work will teach you how to do it.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Let the other fellow find out who you are. He'll remember it longer.
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
A gentleman is a man who uses a butter knife when dining alone.
The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient in a good mood while nature does the healing.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.
We don't inherit our expressions; they are the signature of the years.
It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable.
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
We can all learn something from the parrot, which is content to repeat what it hears without trying to make a good story out of it.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right - he is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of the alternatives.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
If it wern't for the last minute, a lot of things would never get done.
Violence suits those who have nothing to lose.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
One is never as fortunate or unfortunate as one imagines.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laghed.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
The person who says he has nothing to do is usually superb at his job.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
One who never asks knows either everything or nothing.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue without taking sides; they're called humorists.
Happiness, like gold, has to be mined from the ore of everyday work.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
No one ever finds life worth living. One always has to make it worth living.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Democratic government succeeds not because majorities win elections, but because minorities submit to being governed by the results.
When pleasure is the business of life it ceases to be pleasure.
The trouble is, when your ship finally comes in, the government is there to dock it.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
Until you corner a skunk, you don't know lonesome.
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
There is only one tax that would please everybody. One that nobody but the other guy has to pay.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
No one really listens to anyone else. Try it for a while, and you'll see why.
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.
A lot of drugs are used by folks who think if you tinker with an empty head you can get it going.
Money may not buy happiness, but it buys the kind of misery you can enjoy.
By the time you find out what makes the world go around, you're too dizzy to care.
Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
It is one thing never to give up and another to know when to quit.
There are moments when politeness or tact requires that certain things remain unsaid. We do not owe the truth to everyone.
The most ancient of all societies, and the only natural one, is that of the family.
Every lost memory is a withering away of self.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that man dreads when he thinks of marrying - it's separating himself from all the others.
All people smile in the same language.
Immagination exaggerates, reason understates, sense moderates.
If we do not live now, when do we begin?
You know you're getting old when you can make the wrinkles that you see in the mirror disappear just by taking off your glasses.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
You don't have to know how to sing - it's feeling as though you want to that makes the day successful.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.
It is fair to judge people and stained glass windows only in their best light.
Television will never completely replace the newspaper no one can swat a fly with it.
Few people know how to hold a meeting. Even fewer know how to let it go.
There isn't even enough time for love, so what does that leave for hate?
Hell for a mechanic, is a land of grease with no steering wheel to wipe it on.
It's not a sin to be rich - it's a miracle.
Infatuation, like the common cold, must run it's course.
The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas - they are in the hearts and minds of men.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-by.
Culture is one thing, and varnish another.
Most worries are reruns.
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
A mistake is proof that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Feelings are everywhere - be gentle.
People usually get what's coming to them unless it is being mailed.
In quarreling, the truth is always lost.
Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.
Laughter is the sun that drives the winter from the human face.
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half to beleive.
Happiness is a slice of life - buttered.
Profits are now viewed the way sex used to be. Everybody thinks there's more of it than there really is, and that somebody else is getting modt of it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of oneself.
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Entirely too many meetings start at 7:30 sharp and end at 10:30 dull.
Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.
Drive as if you owned the other car.
This summer one third of the nation was ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. And they called it a vacation.
Forever is a long time, but not as long as it was yesterday.
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Progress is not created by contented people.
The person who knows how will always have a job. But the person who knows why will be his boss.
Adversity is the trial of principal. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Most smiles are started by another smile.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.
Adolescence is not so muc a period as it is an exclamation point.
The man who never alters his opinion is lke standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan.
A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they wern't so crazy about the first time around.
If you really want to keep a secret, you don't need any help.
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
The idea is to make a little money first and then try to make a little money last.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.
A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.
Love is where there is no fear. Fear is where there is no love.
An entrepreneur is the kind of person who will work 16 hours a day to avoid having to work 8 hours a day for someone else.
Indeed, the heaviest thing in the world is a heavy heart.
The two most engaging powers of an author: new things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
Accuracy is a duty and not a virtue.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
Freedom is the cement that binds nations together.
There are two classes of travel: first class, and with children.
When we don't waste time, we always have enough.
A true friend will go right on liking you no matter how successful either of you become.
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.
Yesterday's scandal is today's nostalgia.
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something you thought was irretrievably lost.
Youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Camp life is just one canned thing after another.
The greatest ability is dependability.
It is a psychological paradox that those who are most afraid to die are most afraid to live; and in seeking to cheat death, they defraud themselves of life.
A budget is a family's attempt to live below its yearnings.
The two things we never have enough of time and space - are infinite.
Access to power must be confined to men who are not in love with it.
May your house be still a garrison of smiling children.
Governments sometimes do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted all the alternatives.
New air for the lungs, new objects for the eye, new ideas for the brain these a vacation should always bring to man.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Affluence is that brief happy time between the last payment and the first repair bill.
If you're dog-tired at night, it may be because you growled all day.
The commonest and cheapest of all pleasures is conversation. It is the greatest pastime of life.
You cannot know the intentions of a government that does not know them itself.
Memory is not so much unfaithful as selective.
Historians answer questions they are never asked.
We always intervene too early in the lives of others.
Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.
The worst risk of all is not daring to take one.
Reaching high keeps a man on his toes.
Old buildings are like friends. They reassure people in times of change.
What is forgiven is usually well rememberd.
The problem with looking for the perfect woman is that she is probably looking for the perfect man.
Most parents want their children to have things that they didn't have - like straight A's in school.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. You find the present tense and the past perfect.
The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.
About the only thing you can do on a shoestring these days is trip.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
A relationship doesn't work for you. You have to work for the relationship.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
No one has programmed a computer to be of two minds about a hard problem or to burst out laughing.
If your mind can conceive it, and your heart can beleive it, you know you can achieve it.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Love is where all may be said or nothing need be said.
Memory is the workshop in which our souvenirs are tooled, smoothed, stamped with our tradmark.
Nothing is so new as what has long been forgotten.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
This is one of the lessons of travel - that some of the strangest races dwell next door to you at home.
