A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.