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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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2018
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of the UK, historian and Nobel Prize winner (1874–1965)

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Time for a little something.

Winnie the Pooh (1926)

AA Milne, English writer (1882–1956)



In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Locksley Hall (1842)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809–1892)



My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn, Australian-born actor (1909–1959)



There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Man and Superman (1903)

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856–1950)



People say I wasted my money. I say 90 per cent went on women, fast cars and booze. The rest I wasted.

George Best, Northern Irish professional footballer (1946–2005)



Three glasses of wine drive away the evil spirits, but with the fourth they return.

German proverb



If all be true that I do think,

There are five reasons we should drink:

Good wine — a friend — or being dry —

Or lest we should be by and by —

Or any other reason why.

Five Reasons for Drinking (1689)

Henry Aldrich, English philosopher and composer (1647–1710)



We drink one another’s healths, and spoil our own.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

Jerome K Jerome, English writer (1859–1927)



No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare.

The Times (1994)

[Attr.]

Kingsley Amis, English writer and critic (1922–1995)



Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Еtudes sur le vin (1866)

Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist (1822–1895)



One reason why I don’t drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

Christian Herald (1960)

Nancy Astor, American-born politician and socialite (1879–1964)


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