One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
Implementation beats oration.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
Familiarity breeds contempt.
We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
In a crisis, give help first and then advice.
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.
None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.