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Families, when a child is born, Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming Cabinet Minister.
--Su Tung-p'o, translated by Arthur Waley
Though [John] Morley declared that he would sooner have been the author of the Decline and Fall than Mr Pitt, he had a craving for public life, the limelight, the perils and the triumphs of the platform.
--Austen Chamberlain
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Leaves from the diary of a madman: the political virus.(First Person)