Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.