The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.