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

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

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

Under every stone lurks a politician.

High thoughts must have high language.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

By words the mind is winged.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Comedy is allied to justice.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Open your mind before your mouth

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Vices are their own punishment

Please all, and you will please none.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

One story sounds good until another is told

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.