English

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it

- George Bernard Shaw

Truth

If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you

- George Bernard Shaw

Joking

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

- George Bernard Shaw

Liverpool Offer - Peter Lim

"I am committed to rebuild the club so that it can regain its position at the pinnacle of English and European football, where it truly belongs. This is why I have stepped forward with this offer."

- Peter Lim on his offer to buy Liverpool FC

Circumstances

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw

Books

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame

- Oscar Wilde

Genius - Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genius

- Oscar Wilde

Philosophy - Oscar Wilde

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanmity the misfortunes of others. - Oscar Wilde

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out

Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy

Chrisotpher Columbus - Voyage of 1492

Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, buy by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone

- Entry from journal of Christopher Columbus on his voyage of 1492