Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

[I am] horribly entangled with the Ancient Britons, the Romans, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, all of whom I thought I had escaped from for ever when I left school!