Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A room without books is a body without soul

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges