Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War