George IV - Biographical account, extensiviely cross-linked to pages on other 19th century figures.
George IV: The Royal Joke? - Dr Steve Parissien looks back at the life of George the Fourth whose name became a byword for extravagance and a national joke.
Coronation of George IV - Modern illustrated account with historical quotes and details. Includes links to related information.
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) George IV He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) George IV
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek George IV Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman George IV
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) George IV Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) George IV
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton May you never leave your marriage alive. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters George IV The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner George IV
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll George IV Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 George IV
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President George IV "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud George IV
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) George IV "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem George IV
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth George IV "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) George IV
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt George IV The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) George IV
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos George IV Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf George IV
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach George IV My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story George IV
