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Contents 1 Procedure 1.1 How to add your nomination 2 Potential sources 3 Current nominations 3.1 About Philadelphia 3.1.1 Cheesesteaks 3.2 By famous Philadelphians 3.2.1 Franklin 3.2.2 Ormandy 3.2.3 Penn 3.2.4 Others 3.3 About famous Philadelphians 3.4 Garrison Keillor 3.5 Miscellaneous

[edit] Procedure

[edit] How to add your nomination

1. Find a quote that is related to Philadelphia that you think is very good and would be suitable for use as the featured quote.
2. Put a link to the quote below on this page and describe why.

[edit] Potential sources

• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/philadelphia.html
• http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/philadelphia/
• Eugene Ormandy quotes
• Benjamin Franklin quotes at UShistory.org
• Benjamin Franklin quotes at poemofquotes.com
• Benjamin Franklin quotes at CreativeQuotations.com
• Benjamin Franklin quotes at QuotableFranklin.com
• Franklin quotes at wikiquote

[edit] Current nominations

[edit] About Philadelphia

• "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia." Judith Viorst

• "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants therof"—inscription on the Liberty Bell.--BillFlis 15:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

• "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)

[edit] 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)

• "Your search Philadelphia cheesesteak did not match any wines."—Snooth.com, on-line wine advisor[2]--BillFlis (talk) 12:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] By famous Philadelphians

[edit] Franklin

• "He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."—Benjamin Franklin--BillFlis 17:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
• "'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)
• "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."—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)

• "A word to the wise…

"…is enough."—Benjamin Franklin

“…ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.”—Bill Cosby (b. 1937, Philadelphia)--BillFlis (talk) 12:48, 31 December 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Penn

• "Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws."—William Penn, Frame of Government.--BillFlis 12:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• "You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it."—William Penn, letter to those already residing in Pennsylvania (1681).--BillFlis 12:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• "Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast."—William Penn--BillFlis (talk) 15:14, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."—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)

[edit] Others

• "Don't try to throw names or guys under the bus."—Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb[3]--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 lose a lot of time hating people."—Marian Anderson--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• "Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend."—Marian Anderson--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."—John Barrymore--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)

• "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."—Edgar Allan Poe--BillFlis (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• "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 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)
• "I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday."—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)
• "Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."—John Wanamaker--BillFlis (talk) 16:36, 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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
• Outsiders associate Philadelphia with political corruption, Legionaires Disease and bombing row houses.-- Garrison Keillor
• It was in Philadelphia that "in a moment of elegance and clarity" the men gathered here wrote the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. -- Garrison Keillor
• The Mummers Parade... "This is not a sedate public event," he said. "These people are Italian." -- Garrison Keillor

These were all taken from:

• • http://www.clarkdeleon.com/dailydeleon/2007/01/high_praise_from_the_prince_of_1.php
  • http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2007/01/29/dear_mr_keillor_just_wondering.php
  • http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/27/

[edit] 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)