Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.