You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.