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About Philadelphia

"You're trying your damnedest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me."—Mike Schmidt--BillFlis (talk) 13:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

"They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there."—Mike Schmidt--BillFlis (talk) 13:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

There's always James Carville's observation that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia at one end, Pittsburgh at the other end, and Alabama in between, but I'm finding several variations ("...Philadelphia in the east...") and I can't find a source online that I'd consider authoritative. Anybody have it in print?--BillFlis 02:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

That quote sounds like its about Pennsylvania, not Philadelphia Medvedenko 16:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

- - Check out Pennsyltucky. --evrik ^(talk) 15:56, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Hail! Philadelphia, tho' Quaker thou be,

The birth-day of medical honors to thee

In this country belongs; 'twas thou caught the flame,

That crossing the ocean from Englishmen came

And kindled the fires of Wisdom and Knowledge

Inspired the student, erected a college,

First held a commencement with suitable state,

In the year of our Lord, seventeen sixty-eight.

- William Tod Helmuth, The Story of a City Doctor --BillFlis 16:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Ray: "Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947."

Peter: "You're right, no human being would stack books like this."—Ghostbusters--BillFlis (talk) 12:19, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Cheesesteaks

"First, they use good meat. You need the fattiest, stringiest meat to get a proper taste... The second mistake is, they use real cheese. Real cheese doesn't melt like Cheez Whiz... And third, when they fry their onions, they actually drain off the grease. You can't do that."—Pennsylvania Governor and former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, on why cooks outside Philadelphia can't produce an authentic Philly cheesesteak.[1]--BillFlis (talk) 14:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

"He said the cheesesteak had no nutritional value."—Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, on Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who declined a cheesesteak wager in the traditional pre-game bet between leaders of the states represented in 2005's Super Bowl XXXIX.--BillFlis (talk) 12:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

By famous Philadelphians

Franklin

"'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"Fish and visitors smell in three days."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"Here Skugg

Lies snug

As a bug

In a rug."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

"No nation was ever ruined by trade."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 14:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 14:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 14:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"A place for everything, everything in its place."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"A small leak can sink a great ship."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"All would live long, but none would be old."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."—Benjamin Franklin, founder, the University of Pennsylvania--BillFlis (talk) 20:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
"A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 20:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
"Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 20:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
"There is no little enemy.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"A dying man can do nothing easy.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune: for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Ormandy

"I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody."—Eugene Ormandy--BillFlis 17:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"This is a very democratic organization, so let's take a vote. All those who disagree with me, raise their hands."—Eugene Ormandy, to the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.--BillFlis 17:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
"That's the way Stravinsky was — Bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato."—Eugene Ormandy, in rehearsing with the Philadelphia Orchestra.--BillFlis 17:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Penn

"Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast."—William Penn--BillFlis (talk) 15:14, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."—William Penn--BillFlis (talk) 15:14, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided."—William Penn--BillFlis (talk) 15:14, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Poe

"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."—Edgar Allan Poe--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."—Edgar Allan Poe--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."—Edgar Allan Poe--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."—Edgar Allan Poe--BillFlis (talk) 15:49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Others

"Don't try to throw names or guys under the bus."—Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb [2]--BillFlis (talk) 12:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
"You hold it like this and throw the shit out of it."—Steve Carlton, to fellow Phillies pitcher Dick Ruthven, on how to throw a slider.--BillFlis (talk) 13:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."—John Coltrane--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."—Agnes Repplier--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Prayer begins where human capacity ends."—Marian Anderson--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad."—John Barrymore--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb."—Benjamin Rush--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts."—Benjamin Rush--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep."—Benjamin Rush--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat."—Anna Quindlen--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons."—W. C. Fields--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"Some things are better than sex, and some things are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it."—W. C. Fields--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."—Hannah Whitall Smith--BillFlis (talk) 19:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

About famous Philadelphians

"Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis." (He seized the lightning from the Gods and the scepter from the Tyrants.)—Turgot, on Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 21:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Garrison Keillor

~~Philadelphia is a "city that knows its own mind. . . They like what they like. And what they don't like they complain about. -- Garrison Keillor~~
The Mummers Parade... "This is not a sedate public event," he said. "These people are Italian." -- Garrison Keillor

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Miscellaneous

"This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue."—Joan Baez at Live Aid, John F. Kennedy Stadium, July 13, 1985.--BillFlis (talk) 15:39, 2 May 2008 (UTC)