Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften with the passage of time.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.