It’s much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you’re so doddery it’s time you went.
PRINCE PHILIPIf it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.
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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.
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I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
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British women can’t cook.
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You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.
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If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
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If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
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If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
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