Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

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

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

People say law but they mean wealth.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.