"A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence."

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Source : "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 121), 1986.

Clement Attlee

#Sleep Quotes #Garden Quotes #Wife Quotes

“For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.”
“To live without evil belongs only to the gods.”
“I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.”
“We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.”
“The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand. There was discover'd by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long. The first time bacteria were observed.”
“Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.”
“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
“Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.”

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