Famous quotes containing the words harold wilson, harold, wilson, term, prime and/or minister:
“A week is a long time in politics.”
—Harold Wilson, Lord Riveaulx (19161995)
“Together, we three, until the world crumbles and there is no longer a stone or a rock or a tree or a blade of grass.”
—Griffin Jay, and Harold Young. Mehemet Bey (Turhan Bey)
“Alice: I put swimsuits in boxes six days a week.
George: Yeah. What about Sunday? Maybe then you put yourself in a swimsuit.
Alice: Oh, not me.
George: Why? You dont look good in a swimsuit?
Alice: Sure I do. I cant swim.
George: Youre kidding.
Alice: I never learned. I was even scared of the duck pond when I was a kid.”
—Michael Wilson (19141978)
“We term sleep a death ... by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.”
—Thomas Browne (16051682)
“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Just let him be minister if thats what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)