
From PBS series Monty Python's Personal Best: John Cleese's Personal Best (2006), playing role of senile old man.
cue Python sketch: "Upper Class Twit of the Year"
From PBS series Monty Python's Personal Best: John Cleese's Personal Best (2006), playing role of senile old man.
From PBS series Monty Python's Personal Best: John Cleese's Personal Best (2006), playing role of senile old man.
The wit and wisdom of Madonna, Digital Spy, 2008-08-15 http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a119799/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-madonna.html,
The dragon to St. George on plans to stage their combat.
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon
Context: No doubt you would deeply regret any error you might make in the hurry of the moment; but you wouldn't regret it half as much as I should! However, I suppose we've got to trust somebody, as we go through life, and your plan seems, on the whole, as good a one as any.
Quoted in Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 54.
Attributed
One of the foremost Templar scholars records of Jacques DeMolay's dying words.
“Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
Context: I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
in Great Figures of Islam – Imam Fakhruddin ar-Razi https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fakhr+al+din+ar-razi
Apology letter addressed to Harvard University community, posted on his website — reported in Reuters (January 26, 2005) "Summers Regrets", The Australian, p. 032.
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