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

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

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 British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

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