Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
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Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
HENRY COTTON We chop off hair... they chop off hands.
MENZIES CAMPBELL He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I tho...
TOMMY COOPER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only...
AGATHA CHRISTIE So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a lib...
TOMMY COOPER I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like ...
ELLEN HOPKINS We had legs of cotton in the first half, but we did what was needed in the second half.
JEAN FERNANDEZ He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being st...
BERTOLT BRECHT If you're the wolf, though, I'll chop off your head and piss down the hole
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
AUGUSTE RODIN I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE It puts in a little cotton fiber and a little bit of color.
JENNIE RYLEE We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United ...
JAMIE ALLEN When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the p...
LOU BROCK I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
AUGUSTE RODIN Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / ...
THOMAS HOOD You look down that list, you can't really say that guy was a chop ball-striker. You have to hit ever...
TIGER WOODS Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of sa...
JETHRO TULL He's the one guy we've had who has been a little sore in the legs.
FLIP SAUNDERS We've been practicing against (their speed). They can either come off the ball quick or they will co...
ALEX LINNENKOHL One had both legs blown off. He has no legs. Another was in a tank going along, or in a jeep, and hi...
ANNALISA HODGKINS I wanted to keep them off-balance and keep the ball down.
ERVIN SANTANA He may have had a wounded back, but he had some fresh legs and he did some really good things. Defen...
LAWRENCE FRANK Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted...
KAMAND KOJOURI I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A few begged off to stretch their legs after a few runs. Even Santa has limits.
GERARD HOEPPNER Sean has played pretty well so we're going to let him play, ... But we're going to get Chop (Womack)...
MIKE HOLMGREN The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. -K...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his...
ALDO LEOPOLD Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his ...
ALDO LEOPOLD Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his ...
ALDO LEOPOLD They've got some guys who throw pretty hard. The key for them -- as with all pitchers -- is throwing...
DALE CUTSFORTH I judged the ball too early because of the speed of the runner, ... I probably took my eye off the b...
KAZUO MATSUI It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë She was able to maintain her legs, and she shot the ball (well) the entire game.
MAGGIE SMITH He has a great mix of pitches. He has an excellent breaking ball, a great slider, and probably his b...
JOE MAZZELLA Cotton Patch Gospel, ... The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.
HARRY CHAPIN No, sir, I'm not going to turn it off.
ROBERT ARNOLD One is a little larger than the other, but overall the Winstons look alike—tan fur, short legs, st...
MELISSA DECARLO I thought we were just a little hurried in the first half. You can't throw the ball to them. You can...
DOUG BRUNO Henry is about letting the guy off the hook, a song about being unworthy, ... It's common knowledge ...
BIF NAKED If my legs start going at all, the crowd will be my legs for a little while,
JAMES BLAKE I was just going in with my legs, trying to get (the ball) out.
ELIZABETH BESHOAR Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir, replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my ...
CHARLES DICKENS Troy has done a nice job. I think he has kind of taken off where he left off last year, being a grea...
DARRELL HAZELL We played very intense defensively, and we took care of the ball a little better against them.
DAN DERSAM [Italiano] threw the ball extremely well early on. The wheels fell off there a little bit in the fou...
AARON NIECKULA Chop the slop!
TORLEY I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING You can boil them, too," I contributed. "Or mash them with milk. Or fry them. Or chop them up and pu...
DIāNA GALBADONE I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myse...
CHRIS CLEAVE Eagle Valley passed really well and started digging well. On some attacks they didn't put a block, a...
BRIAN DOYON He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Our middle hitters did a good job. Haley (Halcomb) did a nice job dishing the ball to the hitters, f...
LAURA SMITH Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
ZEN PROVERB Socks comprised of 60 to 80 percent cotton woven with 15 to 20 percent nylon also showed a higher CO...
MARKUS SMILEY I love that little man. He has the heart of a lion. He can be physical and also break down defenders...
MAGNUM ROLLE He's always been a great on-ball defender. Sometimes he's a little lackluster off the ball. We're ju...
DEAN VANDER PLAS Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wr...
NICK HARKAWAY He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We had a lot of success with me coming off the ball screens up there. Usually I come off the screen,...
TODD ABERNETHY The first couple of innings we couldn't shut them down. That was the difference. Give them credit. T...
MATT COLLINS In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas me...
TOM NORTH Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which t...
WILLIAM JAMES True friends chop the onions and cry together.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
HENRY COTTON We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of t...
BOB ODOM We wanted to try and make them put the ball on the floor and come off the dribble. We knew they coul...
COREY GADSON Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father’s taste in wine, or do you mean to ac...
GEORGETTE HEYER This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
RENé DAUMAL Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We got the ball to the right guy at the line and Jake was able to ward them off, so to speak.
JOE KINCH I mix them with my brains, sir.
JOHN OPIE ("THE CORNISH WONDER") My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?"
"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "...
VERONICA ROTH I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN This has upset our little town. I can't imagine how something would get everyone so up in arms.
AUDREY MUELLER Then there’s the business of standardized tests. Henry refused to take the SATs - he’d probably ...
DONNA TARTT The wind crooned softly as it dusted the snow against the windows, wrapping them in a thick and fluf...
SOHEIR KHASHOGGI He's a tough little player. Whenever he got the ball, we corralled him to make sure he didn't get a ...
LEON JOHNSON [Jorge Posada, who in the second hit an 0-2] cookie ... David Wells is a guy who keeps you off-balan...
DAVID WELLS "Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast;
Eat some, and pocket up the rest."
ALEXANDER POPE I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip...
MAGGIE GRACE I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Fresh legs, ... That's what 20 days off will do for you.
DREW BENNETT Why are people always shooting zombies? Why not just chop their heads off? How can zombies get you i...
LINDEN ASHBY Our serving was able to take them out of system a little bit and keep the ball away from certain peo...
JOE GETZIN They upped their intensity and our legs got a little weary. You're not going to beat them just playi...
MIKE D'ANTONI Market conditions have changed. And we believe this product has some legs to it, ... We're going to ...
RAY ADAMS She started intensely praying and Bible reading and religious music. She was commanded in an extraor...
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The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
HENRY COTTON Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
HENRY COTTON An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her ...
SIR HENRY TAYLOR Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
SIR HENRY WOTTON The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
SIR HENRY TAYLOR He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of gener...
SIR HENRY TAYLOR Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures ...
SIR HENRY TAYLOR He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
SIR HENRY WOTTON Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the mome...
SIR HENRY TAYLOR To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
SIR HENRY ELLIS The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
SIR HENRY ROYCE We figure to ourselves
The thing we like, and then we build it up
As chance will have it, on t...
SIR HENRY TAYLOR Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
SIR HENRY TAYLOR The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
SIR HENRY TAYLOR The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
SIR HENRY TAYLOR An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the
commonwealth.
[Lat., Legatus est vir bo...
SIR HENRY WOTTON Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it do...
SIR HENRY ROYCE The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anythi...
SIR HENRY TIZARD A true friend is tested in adversity.
SIR HENRY ELLIS Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
SIR HENRY BULWER What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON I stew all night in my own grease.
NATHANIEL COTTON Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
COTTON MATHER Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved...
NATHANIEL COTTON Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of...
COTTON FITZSIMMONS We'll therefore relish with content,
Whate'er kind providence has sent,
Nor aim beyond our pow...
NATHANIEL COTTON Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because o...
COTTON FITZSIMMONS Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commo...
JOHN COTTON If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone
or brass, it will beat them down.
JOHN COTTON If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
...
NATHANIEL COTTON What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that w...
COTTON MATHER Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals tr...
TOM COTTON Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit...
ANN COTTON Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that...
TOM COTTON Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
WILL COTTON I will say that there are genuine and serious concerns about what Hillary Clinton did before the Ben...
TOM COTTON The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economic...
ANN COTTON If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happin...
TOM COTTON In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.
TOM COTTON Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at nig...
TOM COTTON The IAEA should be worried, as I am worried about it, because North Korea is now a nuclear power sta...
TOM COTTON Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approve...
NATHANIEL COTTON Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1....
TOM COTTON I was in Iraq in the worst period, 2006, but from 2006 to 2008, and especially through 2011, the Ame...
TOM COTTON I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-makin...
ANN COTTON We must continue to encourage more domestic short-break and long-break holidays, and our overseas ma...
BOB COTTON On the edge of London restaurants for instance are doing particularly well, it is the central core o...
BOB COTTON Top-end hotels, some restaurants and theatres are being hit,
BOB COTTON We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,
BOB COTTON Hotels in particular are being hit and specifically for the Autumn period -- this is because it is t...
BOB COTTON There needs to be an understanding of what is reasonable for a particular industry, so in hospitalit...
BOB COTTON I can assure you that I'm not very close to Hillary Clinton. I think she's disqualified hers...
TOM COTTON We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force...
TOM COTTON I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her...
ANN COTTON Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the battlefield and...
TOM COTTON To-morrow, didst thou say?
Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!
Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
WILL COTTON The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,'...
ANN COTTON My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specificall...
TOM COTTON I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of ever...
COTTON MATHER Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many li...
ANN COTTON The overriding view is that Lord Turner has been lenient on employers.
CHARLES COTTON We should triple the amount we spend on defense and quadruple what we spend on prisons. Why do we pa...
TOM COTTON In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer fi...
ANN COTTON Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necess...
TOM COTTON The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to...
NORRIS COTTON I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to g...
TOM COTTON Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much f...
ANN COTTON Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war ag...
TOM COTTON I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle ...
ANN COTTON The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unf...
TOM COTTON The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the developmen...
ANN COTTON I agree it should be left up to Commissioner Beck, but because of following the procedures it should...
WILLIAM COTTON I wouldn't suddenly decide to go for a 10-mile run or do sprint intervals on the track at this point...
RICHARD COTTON Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became...
TOM COTTON At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.
ANN COTTON What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinforma...
TOM COTTON Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this des...
ANN COTTON Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a m...
ANN COTTON Workers are legally entitled to breaks and employers have to acknowledge that. They should try and b...
CHARLES COTTON There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
COTTON MATHER Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
ANN COTTON Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We shou...
TOM COTTON President Obama likes to say Guantanamo Bay is a terrorist recruiting tool, and while that may be an...
TOM COTTON Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human...
TOM COTTON In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there ...
TOM COTTON When you fall in love with someone you treasure their quirks as much as anything else. Flaws become ...
TOMMY COTTON Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
COTTON MATHER The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that i...
COTTON MATHER Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
COTTON MATHER History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
COTTON MATHER The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to...
COTTON MATHER That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
COTTON MATHER Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core n...
TOM COTTON There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, ex...
ANN COTTON It wasn't pretty, but we fought back and won. At that point of the game, I knew I had to step up. I'...
BRANDON COTTON Sometimes you have to find other ways to score when your shot isn't falling. I think it's becoming m...
BRANDON COTTON When [Howell] spun the ball came loose and it was right there for me to take.
BRANDON COTTON B.J. came running up with the lights and siren, and they were really surprised. They all wanted to g...
COTTON HOWELL Commissioner Cotton ? Abstain.
WILLIAM COTTON Yes, the riders can get crippled and even killed. But that's just the way of the West. They ride for...
COTTON ROSSER The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and th...
CHARLES COTTON The shadows now so long do grow,
That brambles like tall cedars show,
Molehills seem mountai...
CHARLES COTTON Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plo...
ANN COTTON Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
TOM COTTON I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably ...
TOM COTTON Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but t...
TOM COTTON The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-m...
TOM COTTON Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States C...
TOM COTTON My heart goes out, as does every American, when I see the videotape of Jason Rezaian and Amir Hekmat...
TOM COTTON In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of cou...
TOM COTTON Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women st...
ANN COTTON No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any m...
TOM COTTON The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimatel...
TOM COTTON Information obtained from detainees at Guantanamo has been described by the CIA as 'the lead inf...
TOM COTTON If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have...
TOM COTTON The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reocc...
TOM COTTON There's not anything that would indicate we're looking at a problem. Of course, we'll be watching it...
COTTON HOWELL What I've seen is not encouraging. It seems like there are all sorts of problems over there.
COTTON HOWELL With the salaries today, the players more than ever before have a great deal to say about it. They h...
COTTON FITZSIMMONS Usually when a team is really bad, the coach gets fired. But when you see it happen to guys who have...
COTTON FITZSIMMONS Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues,...
TOM COTTON The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligen...
TOM COTTON The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Bosto...
TOM COTTON Why would you codify a set of safeguards you might want to change as technology evolves and you face...
TOM COTTON Her demands were outrageous, ... The Scoop.
FEARNE COTTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1.
FEARNE COTTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows o...
FEARNE COTTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1. I'm looking forward to talking about music, obsessing about mu...
FEARNE COTTON I went bright red when I met him. I really fancy him.
FEARNE COTTON Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going t...
FEARNE COTTON Clive would certainly be an outstanding candidate to head up a position managing all of England's in...
FRAN COTTON Any opportunity to get on the ladder is welcome. But a deal like this should be thought through care...
JAMES COTTON GMAC allows you to choose the level of rental cover required - its standard is 125 per cent of the m...
JAMES COTTON This is an unusually short time for such a product to be on the market. But it was a very competitiv...
JAMES COTTON The lender will take the commitment to pay interest to the developer into account, even if you don't...
JAMES COTTON I figured if I passed the ball early on, the defense would back off of me. Once the other guys get g...
JAMES COTTON Greg and I just have this special connection. When he is open down low, he will say 'Yes!' and I wil...
JAMES COTTON This policy represents a major modification of the ambitious Bush axis doctrine. From being implacab...
JAMES COTTON The object was to get to (Allen) early and he kind of got rattled a little bit.
JAMES COTTON The city can't afford to put this building back together, ... If FSU would work out, they would be a...
JAMES COTTON He can do anything he wants to.
JOY COTTON We love this house. We've talked about buying and building for years, but we get out there and we ca...
JOY COTTON The kids that lived on this street were called river rats.
JOY COTTON What! the girl I adore by another embraced?
What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste...
SIR HENRY CHARLES ENGLEFIELD My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned
friend's manner would be intolera...
SIR WILLIAM HENRY MAULE Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
JOHN COTTON DANA Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
JOHN COTTON DANA A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than ...
JOHN COTTON DANA The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
SIR RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER CHURCHILL One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics,
replied, "Imperium et libertas." T...
SIR RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER CHURCHILL The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.
SIR RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER CHURCHILL Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while
the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in
whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH