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'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde