Lord Melbourne - Biography and links to related articles. Includes portraits when young and old .
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Lamb, William My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lamb, William
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Lamb, William My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Lamb, William
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Lamb, William America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lamb, William
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Lamb, William There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lamb, William
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Lamb, William "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Lamb, William
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Lamb, William "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Lamb, William
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Lamb, William "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Lamb, William
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Lamb, William The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Lamb, William
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Lamb, William There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Lamb, William
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Lamb, William Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Lamb, William
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lamb, William Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Lamb, William
