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Samizdata quote of the day

“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.

5 comments to Samizdata quote of the day

  • 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…

  • PersonFromPorlock

    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.”

  • kentuckyliz

    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

  • Nuke Gray!

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

  • Classical Liberal

    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.”