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'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle