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'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson