The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.