Quotations on "Politics"

Can we live better without them?


"Man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle 384-322 BC

"Politics is the art of the possible." Otto von Bismarck 1815-98

"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight." Joseph Chamberlain 1836-1914

"Damn your principles! Stick to your party." Benjamin Disraeli 1804-81

"If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

"If you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience well under control." David Lloyd George 1863-1945

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." Paul Valery 1871-1945

"Political language....is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell 1903-50

Quotations on "Money"

Exchange rate please?


"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy." Spike Milligan 1918-2002

"If possible honestly, if not, somehow make money." Horace 65-8 BC

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand." Aphra Behn 1640-89

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." Francis Bacon 1561-1626

"Money in turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." James Baldwin 1924-87

"The sinews of war, unlimited money." Cicero 106-43 BC

"MR MICAWER: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." Charles Dickens 1812-70