I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.