Henry Pelham - Short biography with links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Pelham, Henry "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.) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Pelham, Henry
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Pelham, Henry I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Pelham, Henry
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pelham, Henry An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Pelham, Henry
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Pelham, Henry If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Pelham, Henry
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Pelham, Henry The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Pelham, Henry
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Pelham, Henry Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Pelham, Henry
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 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Pelham, Henry Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Pelham, Henry
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Pelham, Henry He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Pelham, Henry
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Marriage is a rest period between romances. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Pelham, Henry 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 still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Pelham, Henry
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Pelham, Henry A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Pelham, Henry
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Pelham, Henry A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Pelham, Henry
