Quips& Quotes

“Home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not in the things that tie you down.” – travel writer Pico Iyer

“Even in print, Trump’s way of communicating with foreigners is just speaking English louder.” – US talkshow host Jimmy Fallon

“Fox TV’s Bill O’Reilly says liberals want to eliminate the Electoral College to take power away from the white establishment. Bill, you don’t have to say, ‘white establishment’.

It’s redundant. That’s like saying ATM machine. The ‘M’ means machine.” – US comedian Seth Meyers

“Donald Trump said he’s a fan of Jesus because, ‘I like guys who inherit their dad’s business and then think they’re God.’” – US TV host Conan O’Brien

“The Robert Burns poem used to address the haggis on Burns Night was once translated into German for a Burns Supper in Berlin but then the poem was translated back into English. The line, ‘Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!’ was translated as: ‘Mighty Führer of the sausage people!’”

– QI’s Stephen Fry

“To make an apple pie ‘from scratch’, you must first invent the universe.” – Carl Sagan

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border.” – cellist and composer Pablo Casals

“I’ll believe it when girls of 20 with money marry paupers turned 60.” – Elbert Hubbard quoted in the Week