You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.