The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
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Rossini, Italian composer.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.
Rossini really didn't like Wagner - or at least his music:
Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Yankee_Jack
Key Player
He who laughs last, laughs best.
Dame Edna to Judy Steel, wife of Liberal politician David:
Tell me the history of that frock, Judy. It's obviously an old favourite. You were wise to remove the curtain rings.
Tell me the history of that frock, Judy. It's obviously an old favourite. You were wise to remove the curtain rings.
Gerald Kaufman, Labour politician, on the Labour Party's 1983 General Election manifesto:
The longest suicide note in history.
The longest suicide note in history.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Yankee_Jack
Key Player
He who cannot teach manages a football team
.....called the Swans.....
Champagne:
In victory you deserve it: in defeat you need it.
Not my favourite to be honest. Reckon it's well over-rated.
In victory you deserve it: in defeat you need it.
Not my favourite to be honest. Reckon it's well over-rated.
Good news rarely comes in a brown envelope.
Culture is like jam, the less one has, the more one spreads it.
An atheist is someone who has no invisible means of support.
W C Fields:
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Margot Asquith on Lloyd George:
He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
Of a certain actress not noted for her looks:
If she played Lady Godiva, the horse would have stolen the show.
If she played Lady Godiva, the horse would have stolen the show.
To a woman appearing on a quiz show whose justification for having 22 children was that she loved her husband, Groucho Marx observed:
I like my cigar too, but I take it out once in a while.
I like my cigar too, but I take it out once in a while.
Singer Janis Joplin when President Eisenhower's death prevented her from being on the cover of Newsweek magazine:
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.