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	Centre for Journalism Studies 1998 Vauxhall Lectures: Matthew Engel - The author discusses his book "Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press" and his background as a journalist covering sports and politics, columnist, feature writer, and war correspondent during the Gulf War as well as being editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Cardiff University.
	Guardian: Engel in America - Archives of Matthew Engel's weekly column about living in Washington DC.
	Guardian Unlimited Sport: Matthew Engel - Archives of the British journalist's sports columns, often focusing on cricket.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Engel, Matthew "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Engel, Matthew The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Engel, Matthew "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Engel, Matthew You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Engel, Matthew Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Engel, Matthew Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Engel, Matthew Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Engel, Matthew "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Engel, Matthew Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Engel, Matthew "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Engel, Matthew You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Engel, Matthew This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Engel, Matthew Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Engel, Matthew By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Engel, Matthew If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Engel, Matthew Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Engel, Matthew Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Engel, Matthew Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Engel, Matthew Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Engel, Matthew "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Engel, Matthew Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Engel, Matthew Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |