Quotes Library

November 10, 2025

No one is decently treated in poor clothes.

Medieval maxim

Do you judge books and people by their cover(s)?

Too bad the practice is of such long standing.

March 13, 2025

1 year ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

October 7, 2025

10 months ago

…since the affairs of the world are subject to change and to a thousand and one different accidents

August 6, 2025

12 months ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

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