Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637 the Banque Royale of 1719-20 the railway speculation of the 1840s the great crash of 1929.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.