Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.