 A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. |
| My reputation grows with every failure. |
| The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. |
| One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. |
| When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. |
| Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. |
| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. Topics: Family |
| A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. |
| Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! |
| The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. |
| The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. |
| The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. |
| We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. |
| What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. |
| In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. |
| I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. |
| The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. |
| We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. |
