Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.