Stupid Quotations - Part 3

STUPID QUOTATIONS – PART 3

1.       Elizabeth Dole, President Bush’s Secretary of Labor:

The President doesn’t want any yes-men and yes-women around him. When he says no, we all say no.

2.       Rev. William A. Spooner:

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

3.       Yogi Berra:

You can observe a lot by watching.

4.       Perdu chicken ad, as mistranslated abroad:

It takes a virile man to make a chicken pregnant.

5.       from the report of an Irish Board of Guardians meeting:

Resolved unanimously with one dissenting voice.

6.       Michael Curtiz, Hollywood director:

If I told you the truth, I’d be a hypocrite.

7.       Yogi Berra:

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

8.       William Field, Member of Parliament:

The time is here, and is rapidly approaching.

9.       Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, composer, theoretician, and one lf Ludwig van Beethoven’s teachers:

He has never learned anything, and he can do nothing in decent style.

10.   Ron Fairly, San Francisco Giants broadcaster:

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

11.   Congressman during a heated congressional debate:

Mr. Speaker, this bill is a phony with a capital F.

12.   Anonymous speaker, during British parliamentary debate:

Mr. Speaker, if I had said that, I would no have been allowed to.

13.   Director Gregory Ratoff:

They were singing without accomoaniment. You know – acapulco.

14.   from the Deutcher Weckruf und Beobachter, 1940:

Quite a number of people also describe the German classical author, Shakespeare, as belonging to the English literature, because – quite accidentally born at Stratford-on-Avon – he was forced by authorities of the country to write in English.

15.   from a biography of French revolutionary leader Robespierre:

This extraordinary man left no children behind him, except his brother, who was killed at the same time.