Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
Anecdote recorded by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1693).
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Morning Constitutions (2007)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
Anecdote recorded by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1693).
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“I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said "Compared to who?"”
Jay London (1966) American comedian
One-liners
Arlo Guthrie (1947) American folk singer
And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
“My Lord… it would be well if you would stick to your good law and leave off your bad Latin.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
George III of the United Kingdom; reported in John Campbell, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest till the death of Lord Tenterden (2006), p. 58.
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Tommy Lasorda (1927) American baseball player and coach
Obituary http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-barry-bremen-20110707,0,2935425.story, LA Times, 2011-07-07 <br class="br">Describing how he caught "Great Imposter" Barry Bremen in a Mets uniform shagging balls in the outfield before the 1986 All-Star Game at the Houston Astrodome.
“Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.”
That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, “Eggs?”
John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos
“They hatch bad luck.”
Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 5, “To Walk with Owls” Section 3 (p. 86)
Protima Bedi (1948–1998) Indian model and dancer
On her taking up Odissi dance in Orissa and the resultant separation from her husband, quoted in "I have been a hippie all my life".