“Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.”

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Plain as a pike-staff.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.

Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?

Evil tongues never want a whet.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

At the end of your life, it’s friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what’s in your bank account.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.

The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

Eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent,