To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?
One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.