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Sir Boyle Roche (eighteenth-century Irish member of British Parliament):
"Little children who could neither walk nor talk were running about in the streets cursing their maker."
"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."
"While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other."
"I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'"
"The cup of our trouble is running over, but, alas, is not yet full."
"Sir, I would anchor a frigate off each bank of the river, with strict orders not to stir; and so, by cruising up and down, put a stop to smuggling."
"You give a hundred percent in the first half of the game, and if it isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left."
"Mantle's a switch hitter because he's amphibious."
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
"I don't know, I'm not in shape yet." (when asked his cap size)
"I got a touch of pantomime poisoning."
"If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping."
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm getting tired of answering that question."
"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."
"Why call him Joe? Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is called Joe."
"You've got to take the bull by the teeth."
"I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police: the GOP."
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
"I'm going out for some tea and trumpets."
"You write with great warmth and charmth."
"I ran into George Kaufman last night. He was at my house for dinner."
"(I want to) make sure everybody who has a job wants a job." - George Bush
"While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife." - Iraqi radio announcer to Gulf War troops
"I'm a member of the NRA. You're hurting my feelings, as they say in China." - George Bush
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." - Charles de Gaulle
"Gerald Ford was a Communist." - Ronald Reagan (meaning to say Congressman)
"You know, your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's." - Ronald Reagan to Lebanese foreign minister
"Here lies Captain Ernest Bloomfield. Accidentally shot by his orderly, March 2nd 1879. Well done, good and faithful servant." - grave inscription of British Soldier
"Was Captain Cook killed on his first voyage?" "I believe he was, but he did not mind it much, but immediately entered on a second." - Richard Porson, Cambridge professor, answering a student's question
"Facts are stupid things." - Ronald Reagan
"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks." - George Bush
"Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!" - Jerry Coleman, Padres broadcaster
"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes." - Richard Nixon
"The first would be our family. Your family, my family-which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be."
"I did what any normal person would do at that age. You call home. You call home to mother and father and say, 'I'd like to get into the National Guard'"
"(I support efforts) to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially in the members of the House and the Senate."
"We offer the party as a big tent. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform, or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity."
"My fellow astronauts."