A pot on the boil all the time will soon run dry.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Marry for money, and you'll spend the rest of your life earning it.

There are plenty of fish in the ocean, but look out for the sharks.

First you sink into his arms; later you'll find your arms in his sink.

Where people go, politics follow.

The line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

In a world where nobody is sure of anything, impertinence rules.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark: well-intentioned but ineffective.

You must be impatient enough to get the job done, and patient enough to do it right the first time.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

Entre les paroles et l'action il y a quinze kilometres et dix ans.

It is a wise man who sets his goals high; it is a fool who dreams of things he cannot have.

Every act of creation is above all an act of destruction.

Adversity is a temporary thing; a good attitude lasts a lifetime.

If you've got yourself into a hole, you'd better stop digging.

Put all your wood behind one arrowhead.

Only in the ratrace of the arena can the heart learn to beat.

It is best to win without fighting.

A plan is only valid until your opponent makes his first move.

There ain't nothing in the middle of the road except yellow lines and dead armadillos.

Never write a word unless the not writing of it drives you crazy.

If your efforts are criticized, you must have done something worthwhile.

Any jack*** can kick down a barn; it takes a carpenter to build one.

On a fine day the English climate is like looking up a chimney; on a foul day, it is like looking down one.

Le ciel est trop bas dans ce pays.

There are only two things I don't like about her: her face.

I can't believe out of 100 million sperm yours was the quickest.

What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.

There is no such thing as a small enemy.

A sunny day in England is rarer than rocking horse manure.

A Song for England An'a so de rain a-fall/An'a so de snow a'rain/An'a so the fog a-fall/An'a so the sun a-fail/An'so the seasons mix/An'so de bag of tricks/But a so me understand/De misery o'de Englishman.

A man cut off from his family has lost the staff of life.

Do you think you can change the universe and improve upon it? I do not think it can be done. The universe is sacred. You cannot improve upon it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it. So sometimes one is ahead and sometimes behind. Sometimes one is weak and sometimes strong. Sometimes breathing comes easily, and sometimes it is difficult. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

INVICTUS Out of the night which covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For mine unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of curcumstance I have not winced, nor cried aloud Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed Beyond this vale of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the Master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

L'homme propose, et Dieu dispose.

Man is partial; Fate is not.

In a world where normal can turn to strange, the only constant thing is change.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny; but what we put into it is ours.

What cannot be avoided, must be welcomed.

Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans for the future.

The most beautiful idea on the face of the earth is the belief the child has that his father knows everything.

Fiction acts as a sluice; it's the waste matter from one's mind.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

There is nothing sadder than the child whose happy home has been made desolate by the foolishness of adults.

Del agua mansa Dios me libre Del agua brava me librare yo. From still waters God deliver me From rough waters I can save myself.

To be without God is to lose man's great source of consolation and coherence.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.