Recruiting poster, 1917.
George Bernard Shaw said, “Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”
Quotations
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“Genius is eternal patience.” — Michelangelo Buonarroti
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“No human thing is of serious importance.” — Plato
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“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” — Raymond Chandler
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“There’s just some people you don’t hit with a pie and that’s all there is to it.” — Buster Keaton
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“He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don’t envy dogs the lives they have to live.” — Charles M. Schulz, on Snoopy
“It’s a Great Advantage to Be Able to Hurdle With Both Legs”
Memorable sportscasting quotes:
- “And here’s Moses Kiptanui, the 19-year-old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.” (David Coleman)
- “Juantorena opens his legs and shows his class.” (Ron Pickering)
- “With half of the race gone, there is half of the race still to go.” (Murray Walker)
- “What I said to them at halftime would be unprintable on the radio.” (Gerry Francis)
- “I was in Saint-Etienne two years ago. It’s much the same as it is now, although now it’s completely different.” (Kevin Keegan)
- “I imagine that the conditions in those cars are totally unimaginable.” (Murray Walker)
- “The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.” (George Hamilton)
- “For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.” (John Motson)
“Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United’s attacks,” Hamilton once said. “But this rabbit comes with a suit of armor in the shape of two precious away goals …”
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“The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.” — e.e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding
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“I don’t see any God up here.” — Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
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“There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.” — Cicero