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"Mr. Churchill, If I were your wife, I'd poison your coffee..."
>"Madam, If I were you're husband, I'd drink it...">
>Yes, I posted that one earlier <s>.
Or the famous acrimony between Disraeli and Gladstone.
Gladstone : "You sir, shall either die on the gallows or of the pox !"
Dizzy : "That would depend, sir, on whether I embraced your principles or your mistress."
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.