"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed."
 -- David Frost
 
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat"
 
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh
 
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln
 
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
-- Alex Levin
 
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
-- Doug Larson
 
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
-- Sir Thomas Beecham
 
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop
 
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
- Eddie Cantor
 
(VAT) returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
-- Adapted from Herman Wouk
 
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
You can't beat this drinkinG!
- Mark Gut
 
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
 
The fear of failure is much more stimulating than the reward of success.
- Monty Don
 
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
-- Nick Diamos
 
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
-- Edmund Burke
 
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
-- Bernard Bailey
 
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
-- Saki
 
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-- Joseph Stalin
 
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
-- George Bernard Shaw
 
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
-- Russell Baker
 
Surveyors are like monkeys. All you have to do is find out what sort of nuts they like and keep on feeding them.
- Steve Doyle 
 
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte