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If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Yankee_Jack
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Exactly ... that's what I said to Ronnie Rees once in training ... his reply can not be repeated.
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis or cutting hair.
I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
Disraeli on being asked to define the difference between a calamity and a misfortune:
If, for instance, Mr Gladstone were to fall into the river, that would be a misfortune. But if anyone were to pull him out, that would be a calamity.
If, for instance, Mr Gladstone were to fall into the river, that would be a misfortune. But if anyone were to pull him out, that would be a calamity.
Randolph Churchill after reading the Bible from cover to cover in response to a bet:
Isn't God a shit!
Isn't God a shit!
When a young man asked author James Joyce if he could kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses:
No, it did a lot of other things, too!
No, it did a lot of other things, too!
It's the overtakers who keep the undertakers busy.
When Eva Peron complained that she had been called a whore on a visit to Italy:
Quite so. But I have not been on a ship for fifteen years and they still call me 'Admiral'.
Quite so. But I have not been on a ship for fifteen years and they still call me 'Admiral'.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
The only man who had a proper understanding of Parliament was Guy Fawkes.
It is difficult to describe Norwegian charisma precisely but it is somewhere between a Presbyterian minister and a tree.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Of Benjamin Disraeli:
He is a self-made man who worships his creator.
He is a self-made man who worships his creator.