British Commonwealth Games

Famous quotes containing the words british, commonwealth and/or games:

    “If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
    —Chinese proverb.