Sir Robert Peel - A listing of articles and resources including comment on his ministry.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Peel, Sir Robert 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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Peel, Sir Robert
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "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 Peel, Sir Robert When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Peel, Sir Robert
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Peel, Sir Robert Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Peel, Sir Robert
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Peel, Sir Robert If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Peel, Sir Robert
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Peel, Sir Robert Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Peel, Sir Robert
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Peel, Sir Robert Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Peel, Sir Robert
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Peel, Sir Robert 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Peel, Sir Robert
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 Peel, Sir Robert If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Peel, Sir Robert
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Peel, Sir Robert "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Peel, Sir Robert
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Peel, Sir Robert How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Peel, Sir Robert
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Peel, Sir Robert Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Peel, Sir Robert
