14th Earl of Derby - Short biography and related links. Includes a portrait .
14th Earl of Derby - Short biography with links to related articles. Includes a portrait.
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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French 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 Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "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.) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith
