"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton
"Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins." George Nathaniel Curzon
"It takes fifteen thousand casualties to train a major-general." Marechal Ferdinand Foch
"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." Brendan Behan
"I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats." Chet Huntley
"The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one."
"I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30."