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'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter