The Masquerading Monarch - An intelligent and charming monarch or irresponsible risk-taker? Ronald Hutton unmasks the real Charles II.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Charles II Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper 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
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Charles II Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Charles II
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Charles II Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Charles II
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Charles II "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Charles II
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Charles II I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Charles II
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Charles II "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Charles II
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Charles II All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Charles II
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Charles II What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Charles II
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Charles II "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Charles II
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Charles II There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Charles II
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Charles II Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Charles II
