It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.