Curious Quotations

"Nothing, like something, happens everywhere."
- Philip Larkin (English poet. 1922-1985) "I Remember, I Remember", 1955.
"I must follow them for I am their leader."
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (French Politician. 1807-74) Allegedly spoken whilst observing the passing mob during the 1848 Paris revolution.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
- Irving R. Levine.
The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.
- Rush Limbaugh
"Griffiths is snookered on the brown, which, for those of you watching in black and white, is the ball directly behind the pink."
- Ted Lowe (British snooker commentator for the BBC.)
You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you've set your ideals too low.
- Charles Ludlam

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