“Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?”
7. "The Old-fashioned Apache"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
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Interview with Rock Guitar Player Magazine, 2003.

As quoted in the article 'Canada dry' in the London Evening Standard (March 11th, 2005)

君子喻於義,小人喻於利。
James Legge, translation (1893)
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. [by 朱冀平]
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV

“In history, the arrival of a small man in a big hat is rarely good news.”
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode VI, Revolution (28 October 2012)

“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”

“It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”
The Labours of Hercules (1967)