Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

You'll get back to where you came from.

I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.