1.        "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." – Winston Spencer Churchill.

2.        "Honourable age does not depend on length of days, nor is the number of years a true measure of life." – The Bible.

3.        'Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly.' – T. E. Lawrence

4.        "I reasoned, what's the harm in a few folk showing what they can do? Except just because they can, doesn't mean they should." – Judith Woods referring to Britain's Got Talent

5.        "If this freakish parade of the dull, the desperate and the downright deluded really is, as Cowell suggests, the perfect antidote to the recession, then kick away the chair and let me swing right now." – Judith Woods referring to Britain's Got Talent

6.         Lord St. Vincent in 1801 when questioned about the likelihood of a French invasion: "I do not say that they will not come, only that they cannot come by sea."