The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.