stayed in you mind? And do you think it is has a place in modern society?
2006-11-10 00:30:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Oops in fact were're both wrong recent research attributes this to Henry Du Pré Labouchère (1831-1912).
I told you there were lies! lol
2006-11-10 00:54:32 · update #1
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
2006-11-10 00:34:01 · answer #1 · answered by aniruddha 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in-fa-me!"
Ok, so it's the quote from a carry on film and not strictly historically accurate, but it IS relevant for today because all leading public figures, and even some less well known, could say it.
Everyone from Bush, Blair, Bin Laden, Saddam, madonna, MJ, etc, etc.... it applies almost universally you might say.
2006-11-10 00:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by scotslad60 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple,
"A game of golf is nothing more than a good walk spoilt"
Winston Churchill.
"Sir, you are drunk! Yes madam, and you are ugly, however in the morning I shall be sobre!
I think this was Churchill as well.
"Plans are nothing but planning is everything."
Dwight Eisenhower.
"Killing people is easy, the hard bit is knowing when the killing has to stop!"
2006-11-10 00:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by LYN W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two of my favourites are:-
Mark Twain on hearing that he had supposedly died placed an ad in the newspaper saying 'Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.'
Cary Grant on receiving a telegram from a London newspaper that wished to report his (incorrect) death. The telegram was sent to his office and said 'How old Cary Grant?' Cary sent one back saying 'Old Cary Grant Very well.'
Don't know how they'd fit into modern society but they both certainly amused me.
2006-11-10 01:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That wasn't Roosevelt, It was Benjamin Disraeli.
Personally I like "Out beyond the ideas of right and wrong doing their is a field. I'll meet you their".. Rumi
2006-11-10 00:33:46 · answer #5 · answered by Akkakk the befuddled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are several, hers a random selection:
Reality is a fist f-ck, a kiss first a rat infested ride-b,h, barry
Hope **** hope, u must b smoking the popes dope-why not cut a goats throat and see if good old father xmas forgets to drop that notice of eviction in to your kids stocking this xmas-.b.h,barry
i think therefore i am-descraties(cant spell sorry)
the body bagsand little rags of children torn in two-s,harris
2006-11-10 00:43:20 · answer #6 · answered by bullatpool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I shall return - Douglas MacArthur in World War II
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. - Ecclesiastes 9:10
2006-11-10 00:41:17 · answer #7 · answered by Serendipity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"When a man died the Greeks only asked one thing "did he have passion?""
It's from a movie and I don't know if the Greeks did ask "one thing" but I think asking if someone has a passion for something is a good question
2006-11-12 17:34:18 · answer #8 · answered by xpatgary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
98.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Vic Reeves
2006-11-10 00:40:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll be back - Arnold Schwarzenegger
2006-11-10 00:38:38 · answer #10 · answered by Ecko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋