“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

You should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.

You must keep her on a tight rein.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

As an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege – then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.

It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don’t like them very much.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.