Robert Burton

15. The devil finds some mischief still for hands that have not learnt how to be idle Geoffrey Madan, British bibliophile

16. There was all the world and his wife. Jonathan Swift

17. To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched,
And count their chickens ere they're hatched. Samuel Butler

18. Water far away cannot put out a fire nearby. Han Fei, Chinese philosopher.

19. Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. James Stephens

20. We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil. Desmond Tutu

21. The most delightful advantage of being bald—one can hear snowflakes. R. G. Daniels

22. A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. Walter Gropius, German-born U.S. architect

23. Sculpture to me is like poetry, and architecture like prose. Maya Lin, U.S. architect and sculptor.

24. The architect is a servant, a tailor, who cuts and measures the thin chap or the fat chap and tries to make him comfortable. He is not a reformer. Basil Spence, British architect

25. All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great. Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British film and television producer and impresario

26. You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. Lord Hailsham

27. Britain has lived for too long on borrowed time, borrowed money and even borrowed ideas. Jim Callaghan, British prime minister

28. This is a very fine country to be acutely ill or injured in, but take my advice and do not be old and frail or mentally ill here—at least not for a few years. This is definitely not a good country to be deaf or blind in either. Keith Joseph, British politician

29. When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again. Nikita Khrushchev

30. There are times and occasions when it would be marvellous to have a wife. Basil Hume

31. To defend society from sex is no one's business. To defend it from officiousness is the duty of everyone who values freedom—or sex. Brigid Brophy, British novelist and critic

32. Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. Anthony Burgess

33. Now we are in a period which I can characterize as a period of cold peace. Trygve Lie, Norwegian statesman

34. Mr. Mandela has walked a long road and now stands at the top of the hill. A traveller would sit down and admire the view. But a man of destiny knows that beyond this hill lies another and another. The journey is never complete. F. W. de Klerk, South African president

35. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G. K. Chesterton

36. If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family. Ruby Manikan, Indian religious leader

37. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster, British novelist.

38. There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me...We spend our lives doing nothing for each other. Bing Crosby

39. Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. J. B. Priestley

40. The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel. Truman Capote, U.S. novelist.

41. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Nelson Mandela

42. A reporter is a man who has renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh, and the devil. David Murray, British journalist

43. Until we learn the use of living words we shall continue to be waxworks inhabited by gramophones. Walter de la Mare

44. Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it. Stormont Samuel Mancroft, British businessman and writer

45. To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. Robert Burchfield, New Zealand-born British lexicographer and scholar.

46. For the past few months she has been charging about like some bargain-basement Boadicea. Denis Healey, British statesman. Referring to the behavior of prime minister Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War,1982

47. Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. Jean Rhys,

Dominican-born British novelist.

48. There is another thing that connects Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and François Mitterand; we all like to eat, I perhaps most of all. Helmut Kohl

49. They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow. Neil Kinnock, British politician. Referring to Conservative critics.

50. Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion and justice come from God. Terry Waite, British religious adviser.

51. The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed. Harry S. Truman

52. Isn't it amazing that there's no copyright on your own life. Sarah Miles, British actor.

53. Scratch a pessimist, and you find often a defender of privilege. William Henry Beveridge British economist and social reformer

54. You do not haggle over the price when you are invited to climb onto a lifeboat. You scramble aboard while there is still a seat for you. Geoffrey Crowther, British economist

55. We are reasonable. We have always been reasonable. We are noted for our sweet reasonableness. Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician

56. Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Laurens Van der Post, South African novelist and anthropologist.

57. Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. Dennis Potter, British playwright.

58. When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail—none of which is easy. Princess Anne

59. It is one thing if a small poodle tries to walk through these gates but quite another matter when an elephant like Russia tries to do the same thing. Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev

60. The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. James Thurber, U.S. writer, cartoonist, and humorist.

61. Men are boring to women because there's only about 12 types of us, and they know all the keys. And they're bored by the fact we never escape our types. Jack Nicholson

62. Some of the worst men in the world are sincere and the more sincere they are the worse they are. Lord Hailsham, British statesman

63. Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. Malcolm Allison, British soccer manager

64. Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act. Joost de Blank, Dutch-born British churchman

65. The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God and a little bit by the head of Maradona.