Happy Chandler quotes

Happy Chandler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.”
-- Happy Chandler

#Dog Quotes #People Quotes #Peculiar Quotes
“If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.”
-- Happy Chandler

#Fighting Quotes #Play Quotes #America Quotes
“I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home”
-- Happy Chandler

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mets Quotes

“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
“I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.”
“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House
“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.”
“The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.”

Source : Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.18, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?”

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