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'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert