Mickey -- Casablanca is unquestionably one of my all-time favorite films. "Magical" works for me. When I first started dating my wife, I said to her "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." She, having led a a cinematically sheltered life, didn't get the reference but loved the line. So I rented a copy of Casablanca for us to watch. She loved it so much we saw it three times that weekend. And here we still are a dozen years later. . . Watching the movie was definitely an auspicious beginning of a beautiful -- and enduring -- friendship.

As far as the Churchill quote goes, I have the exchange as:

Elizabeth Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober.

michael

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and another:

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but . . ."