When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.