QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Towards the end of his life, English music-hall comedian, Wee Georgie Wood (1895-1979), hailed a cab to take him to the British Museum. The driver looked alarmed at this and said:

You're taking a bloody chance aren't you?

 

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

 

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A generalizer is a man who learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything.

 

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop eating after one peanut.

 

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i do not often attack the Labour party. They do it so well themselves.

 

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I always wait for The Times each morning. I look at the obituary column and, if I'm not in it, I go to work.

 

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When it's three o'clock in New York it's still 1938 in London.

 

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It ain't the thing you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.

 

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Charles Lamb:

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

(And he hadn't yet met Joe Jordan!!)

 

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There's a lot of promiscuity around these days. And I'm all for it.

 

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The Norwegian language has been described as German spoken underwater.

 

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

 

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The rooster makes more noise than the hen that lays the egg.

 

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If Patrick Henry thought that tax without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.

 

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That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no corkscrew.

 

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

 

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F E Smith, English Conservative politician replied to a judge who accused him of being offensive:

As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it.

 

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Twenty million young women rose to their feet with the cry: We will not be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.

 

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Don't soak the rich, soak the poor. There's more of them. (And I'm one )

 

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.