The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally

People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they would to a broken heart.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect