Famous quotes containing the words war, november, october, seventh, fish and/or flying:
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.”
—Herbert Hoover (18741964)
“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Shes in the house.
Shes at turn after turn.
Shes behind me.
Shes in front of me.
Shes in my bed.
Shes on path after path,
and Im weak from want of her.
O heart,
there is no reality for me
other than she she
she she she she
in the whole of the reeling world.
And philosophers talk about Oneness.”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, dont tell them where they know the fish.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
—Monty Pythons Flying Circus. first broadcast Sept. 22, 1970. Michael Palin, in Monty Pythons Flying Circus (BBC TV comedy series)