I love clichès – in fact, with a number of friends I communicate exclusively in cliches. It's like a private language.
‘A moment of impatience – a lifetime of remorse’ is one of my favourites and seems to be appropriate to so many everyday situations.
This cliche harks back 50 years ago to 1973, when British Rail had a poster showing the agonised face of a passenger who had flung open the carriage door before the train had stopped. A woman on the platform is seen
