Democracies are not very stable.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.