Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.