One ought to be just before one is generous

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.