It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.