It's Called Political Economy Because

The Compleat Angler Is Acknowledged To Be One Of The World's Books. Only The Trouble Is That The World Doesn't Read Its Books, It Borrows A Detective Story Instead.

A Half Truth, Like Half A Brick, Is Always More Forcible As An Argument Than A Whole One. It Carries Better.

Any Man Will Admit If Need Be That His Sight Is Not Good, Or That He Cannot Swim Or Shoots Badly With A Rifle, But To Touch Upon His Sense Of Humour Is To Give Him Mortal Affront.

I Admit That When The Facts Are Not Good Enough, I Always Exaggerate Them.

Professors Of Theory Merely Hold Post-mortems.