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'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes