“Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say ‘Bless You’.”

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

We would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

However many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.

Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,