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'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw