It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Few people do business well who do nothing else
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves. . . . Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.
US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.
I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!