A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

If you don’t hurt others it doesn’t mean you love them but it simply reveals that you are loving.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a threat.

Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

You don't have any problems, all you need is faith in God.

What good are insights? They only make things worse.