The Spanish Marriage Crisis Of 1846-47 - Extracts from letter of Lord Palmerston to the Marquess of Normanby, British Ambassador in Paris, delivered to the French foreign office.
Palmerston Papers - The papers of Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, form part of University of Southampton Library MS 62, the Broadlands archives.
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Palmerston, Henry John Temple People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Palmerston, Henry John Temple
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Palmerston, Henry John Temple Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Palmerston, Henry John Temple
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Palmerston, Henry John Temple We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Palmerston, Henry John Temple
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 Palmerston, Henry John Temple "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) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Palmerston, Henry John Temple
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Palmerston, Henry John Temple I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "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) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Palmerston, Henry John Temple
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Palmerston, Henry John Temple The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Palmerston, Henry John Temple
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Palmerston, Henry John Temple Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Palmerston, Henry John Temple
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Palmerston, Henry John Temple Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Palmerston, Henry John Temple
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Palmerston, Henry John Temple I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Palmerston, Henry John Temple
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Palmerston, Henry John Temple I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Palmerston, Henry John Temple
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Palmerston, Henry John Temple The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 Palmerston, Henry John Temple
