Aristotle

“Never eat more than you can lift”

– Porcine star of stage and screen

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

• Xun Kuang, known as Xunzi (a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the 3rd century BC)

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”

– Edith Sitwell (a British poet and critic)

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

– Agatha Christie (an English writer)