People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. — Peter Ustinov. British actor and humanitarian (1921–2004)
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.