How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.