If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.