"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."  J.K. Rowling (1965-)

"A British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."   George Bernard Shaw  (1856-1950)

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.  They get run over."  Aneurin Bevin (1897-1960)

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."  G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."  Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Always laugh when you can.  It is cheap medicine."   Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."  Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921)

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two.  We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'."  Sir Arthur Eddington (English astronomer 1882-1944)  

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful."  John Constable (1776-1837)  

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."  W.H. Auden (1907-1973)  

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."  Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) 

"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."  Nancy Astor (1879-1964)

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."  Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."  Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928)

"A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it."  Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) 

"I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same - giving and receiving - not giving and taking."  Joyce Grenfell (1910 - 1979) 

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself."  'Great Expectations" Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

"I got the blues thinking about the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.  It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and wash the floor." D H Lawrence (1885-1930)

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

"If you have love you don't need to have anything else.  If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you do have."  James M Barrie (1860-1937)

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."  Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)

"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious.  Both are disappointed."  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Nobody ever died of laughter."  Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."  G K Chesterton (1874-1936)

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit.  He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."  Inidira Ghandi (1917-1984)

"There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." G K Chesterton (1874-1936)