“Words ought to be a little wild”, said John Maynard Keynes, “for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”

"Twelve hundred horsepower and an alleged top speed of 415kph is of no real use in the world. But then, as American ambassador Benjamin Franklin once said, what's the use of a new-born baby?" :-)

“Manners are of more importance than laws,” Edmund Burke wrote. “Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”

G. K. Chesterton, à propos du mariage ou des couples : “A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool. This largeness, this grossness and gorgeousness of folly is the thing which we all find about those with whom we are in intimate contact; and it is the one enduring basis of affection, and even of respect.”