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'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte