Phil Silvers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  • Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

  • Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  • Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  • Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

  • If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  • I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.

  • Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

  • No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

  • With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.