Tommy Cooper Quotes

A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."

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• We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Today
  • Conversation
  • Players

• For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Chance
  • Bigs

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Youth

• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Life
  • Things
  • Enough

• I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Forgotten
  • Heard
  • Seen

• Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • People
  • Wife
  • Bread

• a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Great
  • Morning
  • Taken

• The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Convinced

• Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

  

  Leo Baekeland
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Child

• The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Walks
  • Bars