Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping at kisses and toys advancing boldly sudden to take alarm retreating to the corner of arm and knee eager to be reassured taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Children I grant should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men or women it is but a civil term for weakness.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world even if they're 71 you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom and perhaps more malice than either that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently or that they are necessarily determined to folly I must by no means grant it.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard but we take our leisure time seriously.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted and I never will.

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river you sometimes had to build a raft.

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel to study to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.