Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

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

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.