Eleanor and Elizabeth R: Unlikely Friends - Two-part article on the unlikely friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by author Will Swift.
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Elizabeth, the Queen Mother We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 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 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Elizabeth, the Queen Mother The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai 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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Elizabeth, the Queen Mother I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Elizabeth, the Queen Mother If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Elizabeth, the Queen Mother There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses My other wife is beautiful. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Elizabeth, the Queen Mother "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) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Elizabeth, the Queen Mother "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
