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'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams