Michael Flanders Quotes

• If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

  Michael Flanders

  Given, Flanders, Railway

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• January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.

  Michael Flanders

  Sweet, Spring, Ice

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• The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

  Michael Flanders

  Jobs, Comforting, Purpose

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• Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

  Michael Flanders

  Mean, Sincerity, Sincere

  "Song: "The Reluctant Cannibal"". 1991.

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• Eating people is wrong...

  Michael Flanders

  Ice Cream, People, Eating

  "Song: The Reluctant Cannibal (At the Drop of a Hat)". 1956.

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• One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

  Michael Flanders

  World, Able, Today

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• In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!

  Michael Flanders

  July, Shining, Hot

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• The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

  Michael Flanders

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• A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

  Michael Flanders

  Sloth, Ease, Indolence

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