Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. |
My general approach is that you mustn't generalize. |
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. |
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. |
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. |
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. |
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel the steadiness of your resentment. |
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! |
Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies. |
A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. |