3,000 Famous Last Words!

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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone.............

" Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England that have not spoken yet." G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) Sign in to see full entry.

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Newspaper taxis appear on the shore waiting to take you away...............

"... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide." Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some Sign in to see full entry.

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You're too late in askin' Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away...

" England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors." George Santayana (1863 - 1952) Sign in to see full entry.

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their fat psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives

" The attitude of the English toward English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director toward love." Margaret Halsey Sign in to see full entry.

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Would you like to see your colored brothers hold their heads up again?

"A family with the wrong member in control -- that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase." George Orwell Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend? All you have to do

" There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands." Lord Denning, British Judge Sign in to see full entry.

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...I wonder what the little people are doing tonight.......................

" Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is." Anthony Burgess Sign in to see full entry.

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bobbies on bicycles two by two...rosy red cheeks of the little children....

" A pulse in the eternal mind, no less gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven." Rupert Brooke The Soldier Sign in to see full entry.

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...from a country lost without your soul...................................

" For England's the one land I know, where men with splendid hearts may go; and Cambridgeshire, of all England, the Shire for men who understand." Rupert Brooke (1887 -1915) Sign in to see full entry.

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...and if our backs should ever be against the wall, we'll be together.....

" We must build a kind of United States of Europe." Winston Churchill, Sept. 19, 1946 Sign in to see full entry.

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This blog will replace my 1,000 More Satisfying Interjections! blog. I lost that book. With this one, if I can't find a good quotation for the day, I'll make one up.

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