A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.