week quotes

»1per week should be ample remuneration for the best professional footballer that ever existed.

-Anonymous
  In The Field newspaper.

That WasThe WeekThat Was.

-Anonymous
^3  Title of satirical BBC  T V series.

Nous voulons tous louer a'   l'anne¤  e et nous ne pouvons jamais louer que pour une semaine ou pour unjour. C'est l'image de la vie. Wewould all liketo leaseforayearand we canonly lease for a week or from day to day. That is the image of life.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Le Rendez-vous de Senlis, act1.

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek, He looked again and found it was The Middle of Next Week. 'The one thing I regret,' he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!'

-Dodgson
  Sylvie and Bruno, ch.6.

I never met anyone in Ireland who understood the Irish question, except one Englishman who had been there only a week.

-Fraser, Major Sir Keith Alexander
  House of Commons, May.

Can a Man be a Christian on a Pound a Week?

-Hardie, (James) Keir
  Title of pamphlet.

Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 3  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

There can't be any crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
  In Time,  Jan.

I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

-Lewis,Joe E
Recalled on his death, 4  Jun1971.

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.2.

Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Animal Farm, ch.9.

   Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week to make it up.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  The Innocents Abroad, ch.7.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,'To the Editors of Ms. Magazine'.

A week is a long time in politics.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Comment to lobby correspondents, Oct. As such meetings are off the record, there is no exact source for this famous phrase.

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