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'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow