What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away, a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

Relationships are never chance events.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it