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

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

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

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Example is better than precept.

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

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.