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'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel