Press, Politics and the Abdication of Edward VIII - "The events that led up to the King's abdication are those of a very political nature which involved the King, his Government, his political enemies and allies, and last but not least, the Press". Essay from Loyola University.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Edward VIII The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Edward VIII
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Edward VIII That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Edward VIII
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Edward VIII I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Edward VIII
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Edward VIII The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Edward VIII
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Edward VIII If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Edward VIII
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Edward VIII A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Edward VIII
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Edward VIII "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) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Edward VIII
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Edward VIII Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Edward VIII
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Edward VIII Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "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 Edward VIII
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Edward VIII "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Edward VIII
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Edward VIII I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Edward VIII
