It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

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.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.