The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
-Bertrand Russell

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
-Andre Gide

Quarrel not at all.No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.Still less can he afford to take all the consequences,including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.Yield larger things to which you can show no more equal right;and yield lesser ones,though clearly your own.Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right.Even killing the dog would not cure the bit.
-Abraham Lincoln

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect.
-Edward Gibbon

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
-Joseph Addison

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
-Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Fools must be rejected not by arguments,but by facts.
-Flavius Josephus

Appeasers believe that if you keep throwing steaks to a tiger,the tiger will become a vegetarian.
-Heywood

It is good rule in life never to apologize.The right sort of people do not want apologies,and the wrong sort take mean advantage of them.
-P.G.Wodehouse

Anybody can become angry-that is easy;but to be angry with the right person,and to the right degree, and at the right time,and for the right purpose,and in the right way-that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-Aristotle

We must all consult doctors,lawyers,bankers and other specialists to help us, but view experts with a jaundiced eye.Trust your own knowledge and instincts.When something sounds fishy,ask,"Says Who? Where is it written?" Is the expert there to help you-or to attend a bigger client, to please the boss, to get personal visibility or to win a better job? Never assume that so-called professionalism will protect you.
-David Mahoney

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give; we should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves.Most of all,we ought to avoid giving counsel which we dont follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
-Adlai E. Stevenson

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it,to be perfectly indifferent whether itis taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
-Hannah Whitall Smith

Commanders should be counseled,chiefly,by persons of known talent,by those who have made an art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is derived from experience;from those who are present at the scene of action,who see the country,who see the enemy,who see the advantages that occasions offer and who like people embarked in the same ship, are shares of the danger.
-Lucius Aemilius Paulus,

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
-Aesop

If you have a job without aggravations,you dont have a job.
-Malcolm Forbes

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character;happiness does that sometimes,but suffering,for the most part,makes men petty and vindictive.
-William Somerset Maugham

Adversity is the trial principle.Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
-Henry Fielding

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion,most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
-Socrates