You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin
2 + 2 =
“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
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[Also translated as “The formula ‘Two and two make five’ is not without its attractions.”]
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Lord High Nickname
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine
Would anyone care to suggest a nickname for the titled chap in the picture?