Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.

Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave, That blest enclosure, where the angels gave The first glad tidings of Thy early light, And resurrection from the earth and night. I see that morning in Thy convert's tears, Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears. I smell her spices; and her ointment yields As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields: The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased, Now shines in all the chambers of the East.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

He is rich who owes nothing.