Landburgher Quotes & Sayings

One should always be a little improbable. — Oscar Wilde

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. — Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes, Freud argued, people need a history enema. — Tom Keneally

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Goes to war, still encourages the production of unwanted C3 children by exhausted mothers, and still compels married partners who hate one another to live together in the name of morality. — Vera Brittain

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools — Georg Brandes

It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hundred other tasks, but neglected to accomplish the task for which you were sent, it would be as though you had done nothing. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will. — Gary Coleman

I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research. — Maria Semple

The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653. — Mike Harding

You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor. — Neal H. Moritz