Quotes by Anonymous
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Knowledge accumulates in universities, because the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away.
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In Britain, to govern is difficult. In Italy it is pointless. Italian official.
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The collective noun for Principals is ‘a lack of Principals’.
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Them Crow’s be Rooks and that Rook be a Crow. Old country saying
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There is perhaps no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist, but without creative talent. With luck, such men make...
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A cow and calf are cut in half and placed in separate cases. To call it art, however smart, casts doubt on art’s whole basis.
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A picture is something that requires as much trickery, malice and vice as the perpetration of a crime.
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But are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?
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God made the harbour and that’s all right, but Satan made Sydney.
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An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
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Strategy can be defined as the careful thinking we wish we had done two years ago but don’t have time to do today.
(policy document for Margaret Thatcher)
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They lived in squares and loved in triangles.
[on the Bloomsbury group]
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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges.
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He has diarrhoea of words and constipation of ideas.
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It is a pity that the composer did not leave directions as to how flat he really wanted it sung.
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It has more strings than a philharmonic orchestra.
[on the Communication. Workers rejecting a pay deal]
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Student; Did Hamlet actually have an affair with Ophelia?
Manager; In our company always.
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A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
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Always be prepared to bury the hatchet, but never forget where you buried it.
