You managed not to get eaten then?
There’s a lot of your family in tonight.
Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.
Are you running away from something?
People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.
Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
We don’t come here for our health.
The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.
It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
I suppose I’d get in trouble if I were to melt them down.
I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place.
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.
I don’t claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.