It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.