Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.