Dorothy Parker
Funerals
I wasn't at his birth, so why should I be at his funeral?
Ringo Starr
It's your funeral.
You're a long time dead.
Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
(For anybody whose English is a second language, this quotation means it is better to shoot to kill, because it is better to be tried by a jury of twelve in a court than risk being carried to your grave in a coffin by twelve pall (coffin) bearers.)
Shoot first; ask questions later.
(Of US President: Coolidge, the laissez faire president whose policy was not to legislate or interfere with business.) He's dead? How to they know?
Dorothy Parker
There are not many people I would want to kill but there are several whose funerals I would attend with great pleasure.
Mark Twain
Don't speak ill of the dead.
I went to his funeral to be sure he was dead.
(About movie impresario Goldwyn?)
Gratitude
Show gratitude to the place where you started.
Chinese saying
The attitude of gratitude. (Book title - which came first, the saying or the book title?)
Lost
If you don't care where you are, you can never be lost.
Author unknown.
Pooh Bear
Angela Lansbury, author of Quick Quotations; Who Said What When (£7.50; $$10).
See my other blogs on: Travel; and Speeches.
I wasn't at his birth, so why should I be at his funeral?
Ringo Starr
It's your funeral.
You're a long time dead.
Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
(For anybody whose English is a second language, this quotation means it is better to shoot to kill, because it is better to be tried by a jury of twelve in a court than risk being carried to your grave in a coffin by twelve pall (coffin) bearers.)
Shoot first; ask questions later.
(Of US President: Coolidge, the laissez faire president whose policy was not to legislate or interfere with business.) He's dead? How to they know?
Dorothy Parker
There are not many people I would want to kill but there are several whose funerals I would attend with great pleasure.
Mark Twain
Don't speak ill of the dead.
I went to his funeral to be sure he was dead.
(About movie impresario Goldwyn?)
Gratitude
Show gratitude to the place where you started.
Chinese saying
The attitude of gratitude. (Book title - which came first, the saying or the book title?)
Lost
If you don't care where you are, you can never be lost.
Author unknown.
Pooh Bear
Angela Lansbury, author of Quick Quotations; Who Said What When (£7.50; $$10).
See my other blogs on: Travel; and Speeches.
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