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  • The Emperor Caligula 's Habits were somewhat irrigula. When he sat down to lunch He got drunk at onch.

    - Robert Paton Longden
    Quoted and first published in  Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse (1952),'Potted Biography'.

  • The Emperor Claudius Used to keep a baudius. When he got more criminal He ran a den on theViminal.

    - Robert Paton Longden
      Quoted and first published in  Arnold Silcock, Verse and Worse (1952),'Potted Biography'.

  • For de little stealin'dey gits you in jail soon or late.For de big stealin'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks.

    - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
      Jones. The Emperor Jones, sc.1.

  • The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

    -Wallace Stevens
      Harmonium,'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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