Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember

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

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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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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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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Open your mind before your mouth

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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven

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