There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

I got born in the wrong family.

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.