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A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time
Oliver Franks

When asked if Ken believed in safe sex his answer came: 'Of course I do; I have an Iron Bar around the bed!'
Ken Dodd

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.
David Clennon

The flaming ramparts of the world.
Lucretius

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.
Lleyton Hewitt

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa.
Alcee Hastings

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it
D H Lawrence

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard

I'm in Miracle on 34th Street. If you've seen the film, that's me. I believe in Father Christmas.
Iain Dowie

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
David James

Children are what the mothers are
Walter Landor

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb
Joseph Joubert

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. [Fairy nuff]
Eugene Jarvis

Women are constantly asking me who my doctor is and referring to my chest. I don't understand what everyone's obsession with boobs is about. Every other person in the world has a pair.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

My stomach is all crinkly and my boobs, they're like the ears off a dog.
Kate Winslet

We have the best political system yet devised for man. But we have to make it responsive to the people, make it work as planned.
Bill Goldberg

Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me
Shannon Tweed

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Ben Jonson

The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.
John Lowenstein

I count only the hours that are serene
Maurice Maeterlinck

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Now cheaply bought, for thrice their weight in gold
John Ferriar

A moratorium around election time to end some of these shenanigans would be appropriate.
John Major

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe.
Joshua Willis Alexander

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home!
Lesley Garrett

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Anthony Trollope

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John Aubrey

Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.
Jay Leno

My chances of playing have increased by the injuries and the fact they aren't taking another bowler, but I don't want to get too big for my boots - if I get picked it's going to be a massive bonus but if I'm just part of the squad then that will be equally good
Liam Plunkett

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Edward Young

Academies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David Miliband

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Damon Hill

He's a wonderful bowler, but he's mentally lazy and, after the World Cup euphoria, slipped into a comfort zone. He needs to lose weight and get fitter. He didn't do enough running [on Zaheer Khan]
Bruce Reid

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee

According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.
Robert De Niro

I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualisation techniques.
Uri Geller

Of all the ways that I thought I could go out, that wasn't one of them. Definitely not a rock star way to go out [on suffering a brain haemorrhage]
Bret Michaels

I wanted to be a journalist. I thought I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
Bill Nighy

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth II

I've never played him before. He was always one of those guys that you look at and say, 'God, I really don't want to be out there with him playing three out of five.' It kind of showed today [on playing Hewitt]
Amer Delic

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honoured by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau

One of the great, modest, amusing, jolly, heart-warming broadcasters of our time [Richard Whiteley]
Sir Jeremy Isaacs

Vaughan has been a wonderful leader, quietly inspirational and shrewd. To be the best, England must beat the Aussies in Australia, but let's rejoice in the moment
Michael Parkinson

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
Jamie Lee Curtis

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared
Ursula Le Guin

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey



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