Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.