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'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift