Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

still loved but deprived of grace

Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.