William Wyndham Grenville - Fact file and short biography. Includes a portrait and a list of further reading.
Lord Grenville - Biography and commentary with links to related articles.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Grenville, William Wyndham "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Grenville, William Wyndham
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Grenville, William Wyndham Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Grenville, William Wyndham
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Grenville, William Wyndham "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 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, William Wyndham
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Grenville, William Wyndham The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Grenville, William Wyndham
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Grenville, William Wyndham "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Grenville, William Wyndham
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Grenville, William Wyndham Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Grenville, William Wyndham
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Grenville, William Wyndham When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Grenville, William Wyndham
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Grenville, William Wyndham "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Grenville, William Wyndham
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Grenville, William Wyndham There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Grenville, William Wyndham
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Grenville, William Wyndham "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Grenville, William Wyndham
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary 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 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Grenville, William Wyndham Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Grenville, William Wyndham
