Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.