Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#1
There have been a good few quotes used on a number of threads and thought it might be fun for us all to compile on one thread our favourites.
I will start with one of the greatest orators in our history, and a quotation goldmine, Winston Spencer Churchill.
I have taken these from the book: 'The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill' compiled by Dominique Enright (Michael O'Mara Books Ltd). This book is a must for any other fan of Churchill, with these I have just touched the surface.........
I have tried to avoid some of his better known ones.>>>>>>>>>>>
Churchill was irritated when he was asked whether Niagara Falls looked the same as when he first visited: 'Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.'
'Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.'
When asked by Lord Londonderry whether he had read his latest book Churchill replied: 'No, I only read for pleasure or for profit.'
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won'
'Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult'
'Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.'
Tory MP's in the Commons Bar, around 1955, one to the other 'I hear Winston is going, you know - a bit ga-ga', 'Yesh,' rumbled a deep familiar voice from a nearby armchair, 'an' they shay he'sh getting' terribly deaf, as well!'
'When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.'
'The English never draw a line without blurring it.'
'Of course I am an egotist. Where do you get if you aren't?'
'Eating my words has never given me indigestion.'
'Madam, all babies look like me.'
'I can well understand the Honourable Member's wishing to speak on. He needs the practise badly.'
'The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.'
Finally one for Marek: There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess - and there are few errors that they have avoided.'
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
Excellent idea Barry and thanks for that quote on Poles which I have not come across before.Heres another from Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
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#3
Heres one for you Barry which,I admit,I have slightly altered
Recently, my personal financial advisor has beeen telling me to go to America. Actually, BarryW has been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
Alexi Sayle
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
some more great drinking quotes.
if one can lie flat on the floor without needing to hold on to anything, one is sober.
it was a woman that drove me to drink, and i never had the decency to thank her.
Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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#5
Shocking as it may seem my favourite Churchill story was the one where a woman in his life (I'm sure one of you boffs will be able to tell me who it was) told Winnie that if she was married to him she'd feed him poison, he of course replied (all together now)
"Madam, if I were married to you I'd take it"
Classic I know but I'll never forget it, always wanted to use it but no one has disliked me that much, it's a curse!!
It's not the man in my life, its the life in my man!!
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#6
Stephanie
"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison."
"If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!
Lady Astor and Winston Churchill
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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#7
Thank you Marek, I knew someone would be able to set me straight. Don't you think it's a cool quote though?
It's not the man in my life, its the life in my man!!
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#8
Stephanie
Rob Wilton, a famous music hall actor and comedian used a line very similar in one of his sketches.
A lady enters his police station and confesses to having poisoned her husband..after a very lengthy scene..he is so fed up with the woman wittering on he decides not to press charges as it was probably a kind thing to do for her poor husband and adds under his breath and ''if I were married to you I wouldn't let you poison me ..no I would have done it myself...years ago..''
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
#9
"The day war broke out....................." (Marek will understand!)
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#10
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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#11
True, very true, after all that which does not kill us only makes us stronger.
It's not the man in my life, its the life in my man!!