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Callaghan, James (1912-) - Commentary and related links.

Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - James Callaghan - Article on the man who served as Labour Prime Minister from 1976-79.

Jim Callaghan - Reviews the Labour PM's life and times.

National Politics Web Guide: Leonard James CALLAGHAN - Lists positions held by the politician and reviews his career.

James Callaghan 1976-9 Labour - Official biography from 10 Downing Street.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 reall blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Callaghan, James Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Callaghan, James Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Callaghan, James When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Callaghan, James Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Callaghan, James Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Callaghan, James The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Callaghan, James Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Callaghan, James "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Callaghan, James >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Callaghan, James Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Callaghan, James He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Callaghan, James "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Callaghan, James "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Callaghan, James Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Callaghan, James The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Callaghan, James It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Callaghan, James "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Callaghan, James Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Callaghan, James The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Callaghan, James A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Callaghan, James Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Callaghan, James
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