The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.