Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.