After his escape from capture in the Boer War, the twenty-six-year-old Churchill won a seat in Parliament. To make himself look older, he grew a mustache. A woman acquaintance who was not enthusiastic about his independent political views encountered him at a dinner party.
"Winston," she scolded, I approve of neither your politics nor your mustache."
"Madam," replied Winston, "you are not likely to come in contact with either."
