Ethics and Morality

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition

Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive

Do not adultery commit;

Thou shalt have one God only; who

O tempora, O mores!

’Ipse dixit.’ ‘Ipse’ autem erat Pyhagoras.

Summum bonum.

A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

National compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to the grave.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl.

This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport. often quoted as ‘ … I owe to football’

Integrity has no need of rules.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices.

Merely innocent flirtation,

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.