Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.