George Canning - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
George Canning. - Text of an article from The North American Review, volume 90, issue 186, January 1860 .
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Canning, George 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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Canning, George
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Canning, George Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Canning, George
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Canning, George A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Canning, George
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Canning, George The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Canning, George
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Canning, George "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Canning, George
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Canning, George Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Canning, George
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Canning, George I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 Canning, George
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Canning, George If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Canning, George
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Canning, George When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Canning, George
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Canning, George "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Canning, George
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Canning, George The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Canning, George
