Winston Churchill
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'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas

'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking

'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell

'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry

'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace

'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith

'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith

'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge

'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon

'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best

'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon

'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell

'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde

'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais

'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin

'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde

'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell

'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden

'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey

'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George

'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott

'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan

'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin

'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell

'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox

'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley

'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton

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