The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

One lives everything down in time.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

Aren't we forever?

I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all.

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly, ' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.

I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people.

I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)