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'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte

'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper

'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill

'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw

'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling

'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher

'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole

'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare

'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb

'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant

'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson

'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift

'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle

'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith

'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine

'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher

'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan

'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds

'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells

'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde

'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift

'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer

'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon

'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore

'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov

'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton

'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill

'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon

'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward

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