Famous quotes containing the words billy, hughes, labor, party, prime and/or minister:
“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Wholl come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
Wholl come a-waltzing Matilda with me?”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (18641941)
“I was so sick last night I
Didnt hardly know my mind.
So sick last night I
Didnt know my mind.
I drunk some bad licker that
Almost made me blind.”
—Langston Hughes (19021967)
“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“There was an old party of Lyme
Who married three wives at one time.”
—Edward Lear (18121888)
“No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretarynot the top jobs. Anyway I wouldnt want to be Prime Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to its power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)