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April 13, 2009
Monday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Johnathan Pearce (London)  Slogans/quotations • Sports

"Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particuar job."

- Brian Clough, the late English club football manager who did not suffer from the national trait of false modesty.

Comments

Nice quote; still, Clough was only involved in football, which when all is said and done, is an irrelevance.

I prefer an '80s vintage spoof, "Rome wasn't built in a day; it would have been, but we had to wait for the undercoat to dry".

I'm waiting for someone contemporary, to be able to make a worthy quote in a relevant field...


Posted by Dave Walker at April 13, 2009 09:06 PM

I'm obscurely reminded of a sign at Anderson Air Force Base, on Guam, during the Vietnam war: "To err is human, to forgive divine. However, neither of these is Eighth Air Force policy."


Posted by PersonFromPorlock at April 14, 2009 12:14 AM

Whenever my lovely niece says something self-appreciative about her own loveliness, my very Englishy Anglophile brother harumphs something about false modesty.

I taught her to respond, "No, I just have a grip on reality and good self esteem."

LOL


Posted by kentuckyliz at April 14, 2009 12:35 AM

Kentuckyliz-
Maybe you could get her to respond with, "Thou shall not bear false testimony."


Posted by Nuke Gray! at April 14, 2009 07:25 AM

In a similar vein, my favourite Clough-ism:

"I wouldn't say I was the best in the business, but I was in the top one."


Posted by Classical Liberal at April 14, 2009 11:12 AM
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