They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.
Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month. . . chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz. , for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.
Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.
Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.