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'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton