Tony Windsor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.
-- Tony Windsor

#Cancer #Two #Smoking
Tony Abbott would do anything but sell his arse
-- Tony Windsor

#Arses #Sells
I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.
-- Tony Windsor

#Men #Thinking #Definitions
I won't get into the antics of what went on then.
-- Tony Windsor

#Antics
The National Party is a dying party.
-- Tony Windsor

#Party #Dying

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?
A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Tony Windsor famous quotes

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