What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far far from it but there is no free lunch as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

Women - always in trouble with them but can't live without them.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.