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'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill