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'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke