My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs.
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.
When the personality comes to serve the energy of the soul that is authentic empowerment.
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
He who has the pepper may season as he lists.