Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

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.

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

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.