Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.