Operation Badger Catch

Famous quotes containing the words operation, badger and/or catch:

    “It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “When you are about to badger the weak,
    Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

    “There is grey in your hair.
    Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
    When you are passing;
    But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing
    Because it was your prayer
    Recovered him upon the bed of death.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)