Futility Closet » Quotations http://www.futilitycloset.com An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:57:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Unquote http://www.futilitycloset.com/2009/11/02/unquote-272/ http://www.futilitycloset.com/2009/11/02/unquote-272/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:48:25 +0000 Greg Ross http://www.futilitycloset.com/?p=9694 “For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”

– Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925

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“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France

Curiously, when France died in 1924, doctors found that his brain was two-thirds normal size. But, said surgeon Louis Guillaume, “It was the most beautiful brain one could dream of seeing. Its convolutions were marvelous.”

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“It will only encourage the lower classes to move about.” — The Duke of Wellington, opposing railways

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