Success often comes from not knowing you limitations.
Stupidity is generally it's own punishment.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master."
Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future.
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)
An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications.
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
