Sir William Slim

Famous quotes containing the words sir william and/or slim:

“A man is but an ass
Who fights in a cuirass,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“So of the three methods: reason, sense, or a knowing combination of both, the last seems the least like a winner, the second problematic; only the first has some slim chance of succeeding through sheer perversity, which is possibly the only way to succeed at all.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)