Chum Quotes

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag. (Norman Wisdom)
I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. View quote
David Levithan
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. View quote
A. E. van Vogt
I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded. View quote
L. Neil Smith
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity! View quote
Witold Gombrowicz
Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit. View quote
Jonathan Stroud
You have hal...... real bad, chum. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. View quote
A. E. van Vogt
All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant. View quote
Tove Jansson
At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum! View quote
Helen Hayes
A serious mistake in a nightie, A grave disappointment all round Is all that you'll get from th'Almighty, Is all that you'll get underground. Oh he said: "If you lay off the crumpet I'll see you alright in the end. Just hang on until the last trumpet. Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend." (James Fenton)
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, - knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. View quote
Wilfred Owen