The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.