If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

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

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