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'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot