Great Quotations

**Lamsey** · 10-13-2003, 05:41 PM

"A truly lazy person never finishes anyth

- Garfield

**j2k4** · 10-13-2003, 05:42 PM

As I discern the avoidance of moral judgement to be a main thrust in criminal matters these days, this one is near and dear to me 'eart:

The greatest punishment is to be despised by your neighbors, the world, and the members of your family." Edgar Watson Howe

On the other hand, I believe it was Adam West who said, To the Bat Cave, Robin!!

**j2k4** · 10-13-2003, 05:43 PM

Originally posted by Lamsey@13 October 2003 - 12:41
"A truly lazy person never finishes anyth

- Garfield

Liam-

I believe you used to describe yourself as "A truly lazy person", eh?

**thewizeard** · 10-13-2003, 05:43 PM

It's not in the same field but this little tit-bit from Churchill I find very amusing!

Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
This exchange is sometimes attributed to Winston's good friend F.E. Smith, but in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's The Glitter and the Gold she writes that the exchange occurred at Blenheim when her son was host. See also the American edition of Martin Gilbert's In Search of Churchill (not in the British edition). In Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor, Christopher Sykes confirms Consuelo Balsan's account. "It sounds like an invention but is well authenticated. [Churchill] and the Astors were staying with Churchill's cousin, the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace. Nancy and Churchill argued ferociously throughout the weekend."

**Billy_Dean** · 10-13-2003, 05:48 PM

"Those are my principles, if you don't like them I have others."

Groucho Marx

**thewizeard** · 10-13-2003, 05:51 PM

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."

Jerome K. Jerome.

**Rat Faced** · 10-13-2003, 06:04 PM

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

or

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill

and

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

- George Bernard Shaw

**j2k4** · 10-13-2003, 07:01 PM

Again, OT here, but I recall (dimly) another Churchillian anecdote:

Society Maven: "Why, Sir Winston-YOU ARE DRUNK!"

Churchill: "And you, Madam, are ugly, but in the morning, I shall be sober!