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'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'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
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon