Robert Walpole - The 1832 biography of Robert Walpole by Edmund Lodge.
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"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Walpole, Robert Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Walpole, Robert
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Walpole, Robert "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Walpole, Robert
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Walpole, Robert MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Walpole, Robert
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Walpole, Robert "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Walpole, Robert
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Walpole, Robert "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Walpole, Robert
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Walpole, Robert If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Walpole, Robert
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Walpole, Robert Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Walpole, Robert
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Walpole, Robert Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Walpole, Robert
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) .. 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 Walpole, Robert May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walpole, Robert
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Walpole, Robert There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Walpole, Robert
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Walpole, Robert My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Walpole, Robert
