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'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp