By words the mind is winged

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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Open your mind before your mouth

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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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