“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”

“How did you get hired? I checked the box on the application that said descendant by mistake. Im dyslexic and I thought it said something else. Okay, I said, thinking that was the worst employment a...”

“He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.”

“Dont worry, I said. We wont be having slumber parties and spa days any time soon. I quite like spa days.”

“It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring you just had to get up more than you fell down.”

“We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.”

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that...”