There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.