Edward Heath and Europe - First person article commenting on the first discussions concerning the possibility of Britain's joining the European Community.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Heath, Edward Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Heath, Edward
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Heath, Edward Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Heath, Edward
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Heath, Edward 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 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Heath, Edward
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Heath, Edward Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Heath, Edward
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Heath, Edward More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Heath, Edward
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Heath, Edward The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Heath, Edward
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Heath, Edward The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Heath, Edward
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Heath, Edward Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Heath, Edward
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Heath, Edward I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Heath, Edward
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Heath, Edward It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Heath, Edward
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Heath, Edward Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Heath, Edward
