“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
God's gift to women (2007)
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89
“No job too dirty for a fucking scientist.”
William S. Burroughs book The Western Lands
Source: The Western Lands (1987), p. 8
Sonny Bill Williams (1985) New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer
Sonny Bill shares his tale for Pasifika youth http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11627340, by Vaimoana Tapaleao, New Zealand Herald, dated 23 April 2016.
Peter Akinola (1944) Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria
Interview in the Guardian newspaper, 24 January 2007
“Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said at the University of Salford to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket, as quoted in of the gaffe: Prince Philip’s top ten embarrassing moments" in The Daily Mirror (14 December 2009) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-10s/2009/12/14/gift-of-the-gaffe-prince-philip-s-top-ten-embarrassing-moments-115875-21896895/"Gift <br class="br">2000s
“Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna don't like fat people.”
André Leon Talley (1948–2022) American journalist
[United Press International, Vogue fat comment raises group's ire, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2005-09-19, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_375745.html, 2007-04-24]