Quote by Edmund Burke
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. - Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

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Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting. – Proverb

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. – Walter Bagehot

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Laurence J. Peter

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I was at the vice presidents Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day. – Bradley Whitford

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When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights. – Rube Goldberg

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. – D.H. Lawrence

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