Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.