George Grenville Papers - Notes on the collection of the ministers political correspondence held at the University of Michigan . Includes a short biography.
George Grenville - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 Grenville, George Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 Grenville, George
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Grenville, George No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Grenville, George
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Grenville, George A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Grenville, George
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Grenville, George What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Grenville, George
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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Grenville, George I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Grenville, George
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Grenville, George Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Grenville, George
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Grenville, George Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Grenville, George
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Grenville, George Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Grenville, George
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Grenville, George "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Grenville, George
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Grenville, George If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Grenville, George
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Grenville, George Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Grenville, George
