Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.