Quotable Quotations

Ten Quotes new to the latest edition of

* The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, out tomorrow, £30 hardback.

1. ‘Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in’ - Paris Hilton

2. ‘As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation,’ - Humphrey Lyttelton who died last year.

3. ‘An embuggerance'- author Terry Pratchett's description of his Alzheimer's diagnosis.

4. ‘What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick’ - Sarah Palin

5. ‘I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive’ - Stephen Hawking

6. 'Wherever you go, go with all your heart’ - Confucius

7. ‘Real freedom is freedom from fear, and unless you can live free from fear you cannot live a dignified human life’ - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political leader

8. ‘Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies’ - Thomas Jefferson

9. ‘Guilt is to motherhood as grapes are to wine’ - Fay Wheldon

10. ‘You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm’ - French novelist Colette giving advice to her daughter.