Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.