Charles Grey - Biography and links to related articles. from Spartacus Educational.
Earl Grey - Biography and links to related articles. By Marjorie Bloy, lecturer in history, Rotherham College of Arts and Technology .
Earl Grey - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Grey, Charles "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Grey, Charles
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Grey, Charles "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Grey, Charles
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Grey, Charles Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Grey, Charles
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Grey, Charles Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Grey, Charles
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Grey, Charles The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Grey, Charles
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Grey, Charles Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "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 Grey, Charles
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Grey, Charles You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle 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 Grey, Charles
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover 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 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Grey, Charles Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Grey, Charles
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Grey, Charles 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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Grey, Charles
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Grey, Charles Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Grey, Charles
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Grey, Charles "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Grey, Charles
