Chamberlain Papers - Notes on the papers held at Birmingham University . Includes related links .
Speech on British War Aims - Excerpts from a talk given by Eden at The Mansion House, London, May 29, 1941.
Anthony Eden Sounds & Pictures - Sound and picture archive featuring wavs of Secretary of State for War and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sir Anthony Eden.
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Eden, Sir Anthony Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Eden, Sir Anthony
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Eden, Sir Anthony Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Eden, Sir Anthony
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Eden, Sir Anthony Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Eden, Sir Anthony
"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) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Eden, Sir Anthony Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Eden, Sir Anthony
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Eden, Sir Anthony I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eden, Sir Anthony
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Eden, Sir Anthony It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Eden, Sir Anthony
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Eden, Sir Anthony My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Eden, Sir Anthony
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Eden, Sir Anthony We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Eden, Sir Anthony
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Eden, Sir Anthony Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Eden, Sir Anthony
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Eden, Sir Anthony A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Eden, Sir Anthony
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "'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) Eden, Sir Anthony Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eden, Sir Anthony
