Sir Quotes

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

God, Greatest, Whether

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark Twain

Woman, Earth, Almighty

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

Different, America, Liberty

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason

Whole, Few, Public

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry

Nature, God, Power

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Him, Worry

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton

Here, Act, Govern

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Tired, Find

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Friendship, Alone

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

May, Him, Horse

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
Tommy Cooper

Help, Around, Looking

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Great, Art

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Good, Nothing

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie

Life, Whether, Seems

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, Career, Working

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike

Ungrateful, Act, President

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
Elbridge Gerry

Mean, Liberty, Rights

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Keep, Eat, Army

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Charlotte Bronte

Love, Far, Handsome

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster

Great, Justice, Together

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!
Adam Sandler

Comment, Strangle, Microphone

It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!
Glenn Beck

Real, Here, Tell

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel de Cervantes

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.
Richard Branson

Saying, America, Play

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
Billy Carter

Real, Beer, White

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
Shaquille O'Neal

Single, Mean, Start

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard

Change, Happy, Woman

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
Usain Bolt

Nice, Sounds, Queen

I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Harold Pinter

Rather, Found, Silly

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
Aphra Behn

Faith, Today, Tomorrow

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