At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

Vote in a national election.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.