“Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.”
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
7 April 1999
Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club (2005)
Michel Platini <br class="br">Source: Roberto Baggio: 'Allenare l'Italia? Non si sa mai', GQ, Italian, 5 January 2011, 16 May 2012 http://www.calciomercato.com/altre-notizie/roberto-baggio-allenare-l-italia-non-si-sa-mai-826328,
“Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.”
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
7 April 1999
Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club (2005)
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Opening lines
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Clive Staples Lewis book A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask — half our great theological and metaphysical problems — are like that.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay book Lays of Ancient Rome
Source: Horatius, st. 1, Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
"This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope." - E.P. Thompson, "On the Europe Debate," The London Times (27 March 1975) http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/detail.asp?EntryID=104755&bid=5 <br class="br">Misattributed
John Napier (1550–1617) Scottish mathematician
A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise