There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.