The Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768). - Short historical biography on one of the most influential ministers in Great Briton during the critical years when France and England fought over their possessions in North America.
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Pelham Holles, Thomas Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Pelham Holles, Thomas
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Pelham Holles, Thomas I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Pelham Holles, Thomas
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Pelham Holles, Thomas Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Pelham Holles, Thomas
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Pelham Holles, Thomas The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Pelham Holles, Thomas
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Pelham Holles, Thomas The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Pelham Holles, Thomas
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Pelham Holles, Thomas "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Pelham Holles, Thomas
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Pelham Holles, Thomas I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Pelham Holles, Thomas
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Pelham Holles, Thomas "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Pelham Holles, Thomas
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov 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 Pelham Holles, Thomas A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Pelham Holles, Thomas
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Pelham Holles, Thomas Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Pelham Holles, Thomas
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "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) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Pelham Holles, Thomas Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Pelham Holles, Thomas
