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'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson