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'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton