New Money wore dinner suits, which it called tuxedos, and smoked big cigars from which it removed the band before lighting up — an unthinkable soleci… - Robertson Davies

Wisdom may be rented...on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever.

Motherhood and all the sentimentality that goes with Mother's Day was not congenial to the Greek mind. They were a remarkably unsentimental people; they had no particular reverence for children, nor did they regard them as a special and privileged portion of society. It would not have occurred to them to erect a vast temple to Mickey Mouse. They left that for us.

If you attack stupidity, you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life, and you will make small progress against it.