Borisisms

My involvement with the 'Backing Boris' Facebook Application I came across the rather fun Boriswatch site, which as well as a blog dedicated to the next Mayor of London, features a fine collection of quotes by the man himself of which I feature a few of my favourites below.

“I don’t see why people are so snooty about Channel 5. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War.

It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap dancing, and other related and vital subjects.”

Boris Johnson
On Channel 5 (Now 'Five')

“He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet.”

Boris Johnson
On Tony Blair

“My hair has yet to induce epilepsy and cost considerably less than £400,000 to design.”

Boris Johnson
When Boris’s hair was compared to the new London 2012 Olympic logo, 9th June 2007

H/T Boriswatch

Quote of the Day

If you can honestly say you bear this sentiment in mind every time the shit hits the fan, then you're already a better manager than any Harvard/Ashridge/Princeton/Cranfield/Wharton MBA will ever make you...

"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy."

Aristotle (384-322BC) [FAO Lefties 'BC' = 'BCE' and nobody else cares]

Been there, done that, thankfully got the T-shirt a lot more often than the dunce's cap, hair shirt or a P45.

Quote of the Day

I really hope this explains the last ten years...

"Power does not corrupt men. Fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

...it seems to explain about 90% of NuLab but not the whole rotten machine sadly.

Quote of the Day II

I've always thought there is a certain hypocrisy in the way a simple point is made in such a verbose way but...

"For it occurred to me that I should find much more truth in the reasonings of each individual with reference to the affairs in which he is personally interested, and the issue of which must presently punish him if he has judged amiss, than in those conducted by a man of letters in his study, regarding speculative matters that are of no practical moment, and followed by no consequences to himself, farther, perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense; requiring, as they must in this case, the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable."

René Descartes (1596-1650)
Discours de la Méthode, 1637

...I still like it.

Quote of the Day I

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.

But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac, OM, FRS (1902-1984)