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'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley