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Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it__ impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.

Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean _ and the idea is attractive _ there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries were fathered onto it, as in a popular fraud that survives on eighth-century B.C. tablets which perhaps themselves copy an older text. This is a letter supposed to be written by Gilgamesh to some other king, with commands that he should send improbable quantities of livestock and metals, along with gold and precious stones for an amulet for Enkidu, which would weigh no less that thirty pounds. The joke must have been well received, for it survives in four copies, all from Sultantepe.

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

What should they know of England who only England know?

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.