Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. - William Ralph Inge

There are of course no beginnings or ends in history. We may walk for a few miles by the side of a river, noting its shadows and its rapids, the gorges which confine it and the plains through which it meanders; but we know that we have seen neither the beginning nor the end of its course, that the whole river has an unbroken continuity, and that sections, whether of space or time, are purely arbitrary. We are always sowing our future; we are always reaping our past.

"There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.