Famous Quotes

"The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it."

Arthur Smith on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Arthur Smith

• "I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face."

• "It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket."

• "Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended."

• "It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance."

• "Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world."