(155 quotes found)
“"“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off… I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of ’em oughta be ridin’ a broomstick.””
Harper Lee
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
William Shakespeare
“Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat…”
Sir Ken Robinson
“Zffff...what was that, sir? That was your life. Can I get another one? No, sorry.”
Basil Fawlty
“Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs”
Samuel Johnson
“Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“A policeman stopped me and said: "Would you please blow into this bag, sir?" I said: "What for, officer?" He said: "My chips are too hot."”
Tommy Cooper
“Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.”
“I see no likelihood of that happening in my lifetime, sir.”
William Beach
