People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.
I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.
After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.
The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.