Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.