“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

In union, there is strength.

Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Vices are their own punishment.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.