Wanneer ik een beetje geld heb, koop ik me daarvan boeken. Wanneer er dan nog wat over is, koop ik eten en kledij. - Erasmus

This is a new one of my own making: I hate a man that remembers what he hears. Wherefore farewell, clap your hands, live and drink lustily, my most excellent disciples of Folly.

I hear the philosophers opposing it and saying 'tis a miserable thing for a man to be foolish, to err, mistake, and know nothing truly. Nay rather, this is to be a man. And why they should call it miserable, I see no reason; forasmuch as we are so born, so bred, so instructed, nay such is the common condition of us all.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.