Frederick North - Short biography with links to related articles.
Frederick, Lord North - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna North, Frederick Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) North, Frederick
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. North, Frederick I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) North, Frederick
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman North, Frederick "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe North, Frederick
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr North, Frederick Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson North, Frederick
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died North, Frederick Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) North, Frederick
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken North, Frederick There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) North, Frederick
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx North, Frederick The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken North, Frederick
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager North, Frederick The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North, Frederick
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) North, Frederick "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf North, Frederick
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) North, Frederick When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden North, Frederick
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 North, Frederick "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 North, Frederick
