Lord Liverpool - Biography and links to related articles. From the Victorian Web.
Lord Liverpool - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Jenkinson, Robert Banks The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Jenkinson, Robert Banks
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Jenkinson, Robert Banks The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Jenkinson, Robert Banks
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Jenkinson, Robert Banks In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Jenkinson, Robert Banks
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Jenkinson, Robert Banks The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 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 Jenkinson, Robert Banks
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Jenkinson, Robert Banks When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Jenkinson, Robert Banks
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Jenkinson, Robert Banks Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Jenkinson, Robert Banks
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Jenkinson, Robert Banks Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jenkinson, Robert Banks
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Jenkinson, Robert Banks It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Jenkinson, Robert Banks
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Jenkinson, Robert Banks "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Jenkinson, Robert Banks
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Jenkinson, Robert Banks Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Jenkinson, Robert Banks
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Jenkinson, Robert Banks Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Jenkinson, Robert Banks
