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'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'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
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes