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Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash


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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
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GRETCHEN RUBIN What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
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BORIS JOHNSON 'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mr...
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STANLEY COREN And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep...
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ARTHUR BALFOUR And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep...
BARBARA CASTLE Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
GEORGE ORWELL Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right no...
GEORGE STEINBRENNER I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of W...
ARTHUR BALFOUR I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of ...
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchi...
MARGARET THATCHER The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
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Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred t...
MAC THORNBERRY Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha...
AL GORE Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS He's an enigma. Winston is equal parts Boy George, Bea Arthur and Daniel Davis. Winston was a very c...
DAVID TURNER In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had...
JON MEACHAM To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I w...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling...
JOHN VAILLANT ...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from tho...
JAMES D. HORNFISCHER I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and...
DANIEL CORMIER People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around...
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ELLEN BRAZER The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
GERRIT SMITH It seems like you don't care about me anymore, you say you love me but with all of your words, you d...
VICTORIA ANGULO I'm actually kind of surprised Churchill took on a sponsor like that, to be honest with you. Just be...
BILL SMITH France deserved to keep its own great naval yards.
FRANCOIS BAYROU When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were ...
JAMES HILLMAN No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his ...
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NEIL CAVUTO But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash a...
GERRIT SMITH I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American...
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ALBERT FINNEY You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I'm so relevant to you, without me you wouldn't have nothing to talk about.
SUSIE L HILL To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its fore...
ROBERT DALLEK I'm just too tired mentally and physically to talk any more about it. There's nothing more for me to...
WAYNE GRETZKY If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Aryans?" I asked, thinking I must have heard the word incorrectly.
Christian and Allie nodded.<...
KATIE MACALISTER Millard! Who's the prime minister?"

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THOMAS EDISON GUERRERO BARBOSA -Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should firs...
RICK ATKINSON The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and count...
MATT HAIG Love me or Hate me,but plz dont use me.
SHUBHAM CHAVAN The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imita...
MIKE HARDING You know I'm no squealer, Harry.'
'You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you e...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY But rum tends to fall between both.
DEREK RICHARDSON When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, neve...
ALAN DALE You can get something really really fabulous. I just tasted the Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1998 and...
JOE SCALICE An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON A Rum and Pepsi is just not the same as a Rum and Coke.
BILL THORNTON Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle th...
CRISTINA SARALEGUI I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no ...
BORIS JOHNSON when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD There's nothing to talk about. I hit it pretty hard, but that's the way it is.
SAMMY SOSA Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion...
C.S. LEWIS When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow...
JOHN GREEN I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-...
LAPO ELKANN Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.
EVELYN WAUGH It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have l...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I'd happily talk about nothing.
JOHNNY GREENWOOD I'm not allowed to talk about him. His mother sent me an e-mail and told me not to talk about him. S...
BONNIE BLAIR Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its pla...
IRVING KRISTOL We didn't talk about me scoring, but we talked about me stepping up on defense and stopping Grim.
JUSTIN WATSON The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me ...
CHRIS FABRY And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during yo...
DANIEL J. EVANS I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
OSCAR WILDE I didn't play. There ain't nothing to talk about.
LAVAR ARRINGTON We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES It would take two armies and two naval bases to keep me from playing Dallas,
SHAWNE MERRIMAN It's a Rum Go!
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Tell me about a movie you saw and you tell me nothing about the movie but everything about yourself.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The first quality that is needed is audacity.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels rou...
WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and ar...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Cont...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the even...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life
WINSTON CHURCHILL Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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