Utilitarian Follies - Modern History Sourcebook text from Whigs and Whiggism: Political Writings by Benjamin Disraeli, ed. William Hutcheon (London, 1913).
Contarini Fleming - Online scan of a book by Benjamin D'israeli published in 1870.
Disraeli Project - A Research Unit of Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, engaged in producing a scholarly edition of the correspondence of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, the nineteenth-century British novelist, politician, prime-minister and statesman.
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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Disraeli, Benjamin It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Disraeli, Benjamin
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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disraeli, Benjamin Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Disraeli, Benjamin
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Disraeli, Benjamin I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Disraeli, Benjamin
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Disraeli, Benjamin To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Disraeli, Benjamin
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Disraeli, Benjamin Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Disraeli, Benjamin
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "'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) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Disraeli, Benjamin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Disraeli, Benjamin
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Disraeli, Benjamin Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Disraeli, Benjamin
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Disraeli, Benjamin 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 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Disraeli, Benjamin
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 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 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Disraeli, Benjamin Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Disraeli, Benjamin
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Disraeli, Benjamin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Disraeli, Benjamin
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Disraeli, Benjamin Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Disraeli, Benjamin
