In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

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

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

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

Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own.