I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.