PRoof that the QuiP is MightieR than the swoRD
After invading Greece, Philip II of
Macedonia sent a threatening message to the Spartans: “You are advised to submit without delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city.” The Spartans replied with one word: “If.”
The hostess apologized to the Duke
of Wellington, the hero of Waterloo, for the rude behaviour of French officers who had turned their backs onhim when he entered the party. His reply? “I have seen their backs before.”
Prior to World War I, German
emperor Wilhelm II bragged to Dutch queen Wilhelmina that his guardsmen were seven feet tall. The queen, reading the threat between the lines, answered, “But when we open our dykes, the waters are 10 feet deep
After invading Greece, Philip II of
Macedonia sent a threatening message to the Spartans: “You are advised to submit without delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city.” The Spartans replied with one word: “If.”
The hostess apologized to the Duke
of Wellington, the hero of Waterloo, for the rude behaviour of French officers who had turned their backs onhim when he entered the party. His reply? “I have seen their backs before.”
Prior to World War I, German
emperor Wilhelm II bragged to Dutch queen Wilhelmina that his guardsmen were seven feet tall. The queen, reading the threat between the lines, answered, “But when we open our dykes, the waters are 10 feet deep
