Цитаты из книги Paperweight

Quotation is a dangerous business.

Languages are like towns: they must grow organically and for good reason.

...education prepares you for life, it is therefore incumbent upon you, in order to succeed, to cheat, copy, steal, paraphrase, adopt, adapt and distort.

When my young nephews next come to London I shall deny them the zoo and take them to Parliament instead, to see Prime Minister's Questions. It's the same as watching gibbons fight over territory and rhinoceroses urinate, but without the guilt.

It is a bizzare fact that the more widespread and accepted the cliche the less basis in truth it is likely to have. The prime example of this is the hoary old lie that most cliches have a basis in truth.