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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'
I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.
Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.
Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.
Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.
Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.
I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.
There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.