The smallest errors are always the best.

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.

If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.

Few great men could pass personal.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

You are not to do evil that good may come of it.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.