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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. – Rachel Blanchard
To Robert Fulton: What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense. – Napoleon I
A man said to the universe 'Sir, I exist' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.' – Stephen Crane
A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right. – Henry Louis Mencken
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." – Stephen Crane
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail. – Benjamin Franklin
Henry James chews more than he bites off. – Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together. – Wilfred Sheed
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. – William Faulkner
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. – H. L. Mencken
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. – Oscar Wilde
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended. – Oriana Fallaci
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. – J.M. Barrie
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. – James M. Barrie
I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War – Richard Milhous Nixon
Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday. – Samuel Johnson
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church. – John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments. – Dale Carnegie
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket. – Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3
So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were. – Arthur Marx
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual. – George Bernard Shaw
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster. – Curt Simmons
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge. – J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. – Samuel Johnson

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