Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.