Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.