My Small Boat

On being asked to apologise for calling a fellow MP a liar.
Mr Speaker, I said the honourable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable member may place the punctuation where he please.

Sea Fever

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a gray mist on the sea’s face, and a gray dawn breaking.
I must [...]

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A boy is noise with dirt on it.

Only he who shouts for the Jews can sing the Gregorian chant.