Mercury

"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you" Damon Runyon

"You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without the secretaries" Jane Fonda

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends" Norman Douglas

"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness" D.H. Lawrence

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally" David Frost

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying" Woody Allen

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows" Aristotle Onassis

"A minute's success pays the failure of years" Robert Browning

"Europe is not just about material results, it is about spirit. Europe is a state of mind" Jacques Delors

"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes" Mickey Mouse

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it" Anthony Burgess

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies" Gore Vidal

"There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails" Spencer Tracy

Venus

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all" Thomas Hardy

"To love is to be vulnerable" C S Lewis

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly" Voltaire

"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap" Dolly Parton

"Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles" George Mikes

"Love is friendship plus sex" Havelock Ellis

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round" David Lodge

"There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life" Kathleen Norris

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it" Confucius

"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels" Jane Austen

"Vanity, like murder, will out" Hannah Cowley

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet" Saint Augustine

"Men have charisma; women have vital statistics" Julie Birchill

"I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation" Oscar Wilde

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one" John Keats

"I am fond of children (except boys)" Lewis Carroll

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie" Dorothy Parker

"Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended" Zsa-Zsa Gabor

"Love means never having to say you're sorry" Erich Segal

"The best way to know life is to love many things" Vincent Van Gogh

"I know all about art, but I don't know what I like" John Brack

"No-one should have to dance backwards all their life" Jill Johnston

"A boy's best friend is his mother" Joseph Stefano

Earth

"I don't believe in happiness: why should we expect to be happy? In such a world as this, depression is rational, rage reasonable" Fay Weldon

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe" H.G. Wells

"It is very difficult now to find anyone in South Africa who ever supported apartheid" Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats" J.B. Priestley

"There is precious little in civilisation to appeal to a Yeti" Sir Edmund Hillary

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it" T.S. Eliot

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" Neil Armstrong

"France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can't tear the toilet paper" Billy Wilder

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably Man's best-friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx

Mars

"I detest war; it ruins conversation" Bernard Fontenelle

"To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter" Françoise Sagan

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" Napolean

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally" W.C. Fields

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made" Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Man invented language in order to satisfy his deep need to complain" Lily Tomlin

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry" Sir Winston Churchill

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight" Phyllis Diller

"The world would not be in such a snarl
if Marx been Groucho instead of Karl" Irving Berlin

"As for being a general, well, at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all generals. Only some of us never grow out of it" Sir Peter Ustinov

"A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy" Professor Max Weinreich

Jupiter

"Laws like houses lean on one another" Edmund Burke

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor" William Plomer

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice" H.L. Mencken

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to understand that it bears a very close resemblance to the first" Ronald Reagan

"The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains in this revolution. It has a world to win. Workers of the world unite!" Friedrich Engels

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular" Adlai Stevenson

"How ruthless and hard and vile and right the young are" Hal Porter

"It's often better to be in chains than to be free" Franz Kafka

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" William Shakespeare

"I think I have become a sort of institution - you know, the sort of thing people expect to see around the place" Margaret Thatcher

Saturn

"Man is what he eats" Ludwig Feuerbach

"Hunger is the best sauce in the world" Miguel de Cervantes

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered" Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uranus

"The most precious things in speech are pauses" Sir Ralph Richardson

"I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die" Salvador Dali

"Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema" Albert Camus

"Friends are God's apology for relations" Hugh Kingsmill

The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is
"42" Douglas Adams

Neptune

"The sea is as deepe in a calme as in a storme"
John Donne

"The sea has never been fr4iendly to man. At best it has been the accomplice of restlessness" Joseph Conrad

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you"
F Scott Fitzgerald

"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" Herman Melville

"There are more old drunkards than old doctors" Benjamin Franklin

Pluto

"In works of labour, or of skill,
I would be busy too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do" Isaac Watts

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today" James Dean

"A reporter is a man who has renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh and the devil" David Murray

"Lloyd Webber's music is everywhere, but so is AIDS" Malcolm Williamson

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt"? Joseph Heller

"If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on" Stevie Smith

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried" Mae West

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious" Oscar Wilde