Frank Muir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
-- Frank Muir

#Wine #Bottles #Tactics
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat
-- Frank Muir

#Sweet #Cocktails #Wheat
A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.
-- Frank Muir

#Horse #Golf #Blow
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
-- Frank Muir

#Solitude #Weapons #Way
The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
-- Frank Muir

#Reading #Golden #Menus
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
-- Frank Muir

#Attitude #Hymns #Three
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.
-- Frank Muir

#Food #Simple #Leaving
Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.
-- Frank Muir

#Tea #Together #Moles
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
-- Frank Muir

#Speech #Few Words

Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of SchrÃ¶dinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Frank Muir famous quotes

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