When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

The corpse opened his eyes.

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

Divine is supernatural.

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.