#ill

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#butterfly #caterpillar #drummer #ground #grub

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

#come #drunk #glorious #i #manly

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America. ↗

— Toby Young

#britain #celebrate #chances #class #condemn

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. ↗

— Toby Young

#bond #call #cat #hasn #i

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan. ↗

— Toby Young

#career #down #even #go #i

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise. ↗

— Cole Younger

#any #anything #appear #aware #bank

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. ↗

— Cole Younger

#being #born #county #fighters #i

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#bill #doctor #gave #him #his

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#dope #i #kill #knew #living

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#drinks #eighty #glasses #grandmother #need