Lord John Russell - Biography and links to related articles from Spartacus Educational.
Lord John Russell - Article on his life and work. By Marjie Bloy, lecturer in history, Rotherham College of Arts and Technology .
Lord John Russell - Biography and links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Russell, John It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Russell, John
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Russell, John The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Russell, John
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Russell, John "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Russell, John
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Russell, John Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Russell, John
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Russell, John I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins 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 Russell, John
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Russell, John "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Russell, John
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Russell, John "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Russell, John
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Russell, John 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 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Russell, John
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Russell, John Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Russell, John
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Russell, John I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Russell, John
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Russell, John If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Russell, John
