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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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
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British women can’t cook.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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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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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.
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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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I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
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I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
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Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
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