“If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.”

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Do not take a blind guide.

Open your mind before your mouth.

You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

A slave is but half a man.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

High thoughts must have high language.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Some people suddenly leave your life with a lot of debt to pay.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

I don’t come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.