Earl of Rosebery - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait. From Spartacus Educational.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Primrose, Archibald Philip "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Primrose, Archibald Philip
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Primrose, Archibald Philip Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Primrose, Archibald Philip
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Primrose, Archibald Philip The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Primrose, Archibald Philip
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Primrose, Archibald Philip "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Primrose, Archibald Philip
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Primrose, Archibald Philip "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Primrose, Archibald Philip
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Primrose, Archibald Philip The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Primrose, Archibald Philip
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "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) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Primrose, Archibald Philip The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "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 don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Primrose, Archibald Philip
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Primrose, Archibald Philip "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Primrose, Archibald Philip
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Primrose, Archibald Philip The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Primrose, Archibald Philip
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Primrose, Archibald Philip Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Primrose, Archibald Philip
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Primrose, Archibald Philip "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Primrose, Archibald Philip
