PMs in History - 10 Downing Street - Profiles of all prime ministers since Robert Walpole in 1721, including portraits from the Government Art Collection. From the official site of the Prime Minister.
British Prime Ministers - A list of Prime Ministers from 1721 to today; includes some biographies.
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Prime Ministers I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley What's new? Most of my wife. 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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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Prime Ministers "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Prime Ministers
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Prime Ministers Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Prime Ministers
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Prime Ministers Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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
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The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Prime Ministers The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Prime Ministers
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Prime Ministers Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Prime Ministers
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Prime Ministers Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Prime Ministers
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Prime Ministers At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Prime Ministers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Prime Ministers
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Prime Ministers There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Prime Ministers
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Prime Ministers "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prime Ministers
