H H Asquith - Copy of letter dated December 1916, to Syliva Stanley after his resignation as Prime Minister .
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Asquith, Herbert Henry My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Asquith, Herbert Henry
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Asquith, Herbert Henry Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Asquith, Herbert Henry
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Asquith, Herbert Henry Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Asquith, Herbert Henry
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Asquith, Herbert Henry When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Asquith, Herbert Henry
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Asquith, Herbert Henry Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Asquith, Herbert Henry
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Asquith, Herbert Henry He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Asquith, Herbert Henry
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Asquith, Herbert Henry Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Asquith, Herbert Henry
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Asquith, Herbert Henry They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Asquith, Herbert Henry
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Asquith, Herbert Henry "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Asquith, Herbert Henry
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Asquith, Herbert Henry "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Asquith, Herbert Henry
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Asquith, Herbert Henry If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Asquith, Herbert Henry
