You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes
On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners. – George Mikes
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes
On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners. – George Mikes
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. – George Mikes
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. – George Mikes
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain