Great Quotations

When he’s not busy ensuring things run smoothly, Anthony likes a spot of philosophy. Here are some of his favourite quotes, but who said them?

Who said this…

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

1.     Sir Winston Churchill
2.     Donald Trump
3.     Boris Johnson

Sir Winston Churchill

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

1.    Richard Lewis
2.    Groucho Marx
3.    Woody Allen

Richard Lewis

Eating words has never given me indigestion

  1. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  2. Tommy Cooper
  3. Sir Winston Churchil

 

In heaven all the interesting people are missing

  1. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  2. Friedrich Nietzsche
  3. Keith Richards

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You know you’re getting older, when the candles cost more than the cake

  1. Trevor Simons
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Bob Hope

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Love is grand, divorce is one hundred grand

  1. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  2. Richard Burton
  3. Mel Gibson

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

  1. Gandhi
  2. Stevie Wonder
  3. Belinda Hopley

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Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse

  1. Groucho Marx
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Rod Stewart

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Someone left the cork out of my lunch

  1. W C Fields
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Toby Humphreys

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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

  1. Oscar Wilde
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Billy Bunter

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Sports do not build character, they reveal it

  1. A P McCoy
  2. Sir Stanley Matthews
  3. John McEnroe

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It takes 25 years to build an overnight success

  1. Sir Richard Branson
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Bill Gates

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There is a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot

  1. Barley Ward-Thomas
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Steve Wright

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Where there’s a will, there are 500 relatives

  1. Anna Nicole Smith
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Donald Trump

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Beer is the only one reason I get out of bed every afternoon

  1. S P Henderson
  2. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  3. Geoffrey Barnard

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If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip

  1. Bear Grylls
  2. Charley Boorman
  3. Karl Malden

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Who said this…

Few women admit their age, fewer men act it

  1. Barbara Windsor
  2. Liza Minnelli
  3. Anthony Ward-Thomas

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One thing I can’t recycle is wasted time

  1. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  2. Al Gore
  3. Ted Adams

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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Jimi Hendrix
  3. Anthony Ward-Thomas

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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

  1. Sean Penn
  2. Bernie Ecclestone
  3. Alex Baldwin

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Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine

  1. Ronald Regan
  2. Michael Jackson
  3. Johnny Cash

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Never hire a colour blind bomb technician

  1. Anthony Ward-Thomas
  2. Louis Braille
  3. Charlie Parry

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