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Billy Bennett

August 19, 2010 – 2:04 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Broadcasters, Comedians, Military, Performers, Poets, WWI, WWII
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“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Nahum Tate

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

Douglas Bader

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Carroll Quigley

“We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries”. –Carroll Quigley

George Moore

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Friedrich von Hayek

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

William Wallace

“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free”. –William Wallace

Oliver Herford

April 23, 2010 – 3:54 am
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Journalists, Poets
Tagged America, American, American Artist, American Artists, American Author, American Authors, American Writer, American Writers, Americans, Art, Artist, Artists, Artwork, Author, Authors, Britain, British, British Empire, But Few Get Up, Call, Called, Called But Few Get Up, Calling, Calls, Few, Few Get Up, Fewer, Fewest, Get, Get Up, Gets, Getting, Got, Great Britain, Herford, Herford Quote, Herford Quotes, Humor, Humorist, Humorists, Humorous, Illustrate, Illustrated, Illustrates, Illustrating, Illustration, Illustrations, Illustrator, Illustrators, Journalism, Journalist, Journalists, Little Book of Bores, Many, Many Are, Many Are Called, Many Are Called But Few Get Up, O, O Herford, O Herford Quote, O Herford Quotes, Oliver, Oliver Herford, Oliver Herford Quote, Oliver Herford Quotes, Quote, Quotes, The American Oscar Wilde, The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom, The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903, U.K., U.S., U.S.A., UK, United Kingdom, United States, United States of America, Up, Us, USA, Write, Writer, Writers, Writes, Writing, Writings, Wrote
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“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Ronald Firbank

April 20, 2010 – 8:30 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Roman Catholic Church
Tagged Annesley, Arthur, Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank, Britain, British, British Empire, British Novelist, British Novelists, British Writer, British Writers, Camp, Camp Novels, Camping, Campy, Campy Novels, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholics, Complain, Complained, Complaining, Complains, Disgrace, Disgraced, Disgraceful, Disgracefully, Disgracefully Managed, Disgraces, Disgracing, England, English, English Novelist, English Novelists, English Writer, English Writers, Englishman, Englishmen, Firbank, Firbank Quote, Firbank Quotes, Great Britain, Hard, Harder, Hardest, Hardly, Hardly Knows, Hardly Knows To Whom To Complain, Kitsch, Kitschy, Knew, Know, Knowing, Knows, Manage, Managed, Management, Manages, Managing, Novel, Novelist, Novelists, Novels, One Hardly Knows, One Hardly Knows To Whom, One Hardly Knows To Whom To Complain, Quote, Quotes, Roman Catholic Church, Ronald, Ronald Firbank, Ronald Firbank Quote, Ronald Firbank Quotes, The World, The World Is Disgracefully Managed, The World Is Disgracefully Managed One Hardly Knows To Whom To Complain, To Whom To Complain, United Kingdom, Vainglory, World, Worlds, Write, Writer, Writers, Writes, Writing, Writings
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“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain”. –Ronald Firbank

Samuel Smiles

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform”. –Samuel Smiles

Samuel Gompers

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

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