This morning's quotations

In May 2016, George Osborne, the Conservative (of a liberal type) British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance), told television presenter Robert Peston: “We look forward to working with whoever the next President is, whoever she may be.”
By July of that year he was on the back benches after the referendum he had opposed was won by Leave and the world of May 2016 had ceased to exist.


G.K. Chesterton said: “He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. "


"We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable." - John Updike

Seen on Facebook ten years ago: I'm only on this earth making up the numbers.