Earl of Wilmington - Short biography with links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Compton, Spencer Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Compton, Spencer
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Compton, Spencer The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Compton, Spencer
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Compton, Spencer "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Compton, Spencer
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Compton, Spencer It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Compton, Spencer
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Compton, Spencer When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Compton, Spencer
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Compton, Spencer Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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 Compton, Spencer
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Compton, Spencer "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Compton, Spencer
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compton, Spencer There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Compton, Spencer
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 Compton, Spencer Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Compton, Spencer
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Compton, Spencer "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Compton, Spencer
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Compton, Spencer Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Compton, Spencer
