Quotes by Erasmus, Desiderius

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must a >>

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silenc >>

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic org >>

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 y >>

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry right >>

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius