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Who said this well-known quote? (Vanity of vanities)
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Posted on 09/04/2002 4:45:15 PM PDT by Mr. Mulliner
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To: Mr. Mulliner; headsonpikes
Wayne Gretzky?
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posted on
09/04/2002 5:21:21 PM PDT
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Dakmar
To: Bogey78O
Otto Von Bismarck is the guy that Michael Medved credited as the source. Now it all comes back to me.
To: Mr. Mulliner
If you're not a liberal by the age of 20 you probably didn't go to public (government indoctrination) school. If you are a liberal by the age of 30, you're probably a megalomaniacal greedy control freak who wants to rule the world with an iron fist and soak the streets with the blood of the nonbelievers (aka a Democrat).
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posted on
09/04/2002 5:26:34 PM PDT
by
beavus
To: one_particular_harbour
RE: Churchhill: I thought he said I was drunk and you were ugly.
To: one_particular_harbour; Tribune7
(That's a joke.)
[So's your ping]
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posted on
09/04/2002 5:29:55 PM PDT
by
tpaine
To: Rebelbase
The way I heard it, a woman saw him drunk and said, "Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!" He replied, "Yes, and you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober."
To: Mr. Mulliner
I heard she also said, "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband I'd put poisen in your drink". To which he replied: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
To: Mr. Mulliner
Famous exchange with Lady Astor:
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee."
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
Don't ask about the Lord Privy Seal . . . :-D
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To: BullDog108; AnAmericanMother
Great minds think alike...and at the same time, too!
To: Mr. Mulliner
This quote is burned in my head because I used it in a college paper and incorrectly quoted Churchill. I came back with Abbie Hoffman, and he dropped my grade. As far as I know now, it is Bismarck who was the originator of the quote.
Honestly, never saw the Guizot attribution before.
Another one Bush should consider...The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck
To: Mr. Mulliner
The quote was a joint statement by the Tin Man and the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz.
Leni
To: Mr. Mulliner
Pretty darned close - it wasn't up when I started typing (hey . . . I'm a slow typist!)
Churchill was a pretty salty character. Some of his quotes are a bit blue.
To: JerseyHighlander
Otto Von Bismarck is the guy that Michael Medved cited as the source. I do trust his attention to such details, but the Guizot thing is interesting, isn't it?
To: JennysCool
Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35!......but he returned to the Conservative Party by the time he was forty and was its proud leader for most of the rest of his political life, including throughout WWII - a half-truth on the part of Mr. Addison and not very convincing argument that Churchill wouldn't have expressed such sentiments.......
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