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.
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.