When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis. . . In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.