Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909. - Laura Penny

"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.

Bankers grovelled before the governments they usually revile, like wispy poets whining for grant money. They got billions in bailouts, yet somehow the financial sector still inspires more trust and respect than the government that saved it from itself.

Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.