The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.