BBC News | Wilson's economic gamble - Documents disclosed for the first time appear to show that Prime Minister Harold Wilson considered some unexpected political tactics in 1970.
Harold Wilson - Served as Prime Minister from 1964-70 and 1974-6 Labour b.11.3.1916; d.24.5.1995. Coined the phrase "A week is a long time in politics." Information about the late Prime Minister.
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Wilson, Harold "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Wilson, Harold
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Wilson, Harold If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Wilson, Harold
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Wilson, Harold There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Wilson, Harold
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 Wilson, Harold Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Wilson, Harold
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Wilson, Harold The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Wilson, Harold
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Wilson, Harold You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Wilson, Harold
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Wilson, Harold Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Wilson, Harold
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Wilson, Harold "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Wilson, Harold
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Wilson, Harold I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Wilson, Harold
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Wilson, Harold He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Wilson, Harold
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost My other wife is beautiful. Wilson, Harold By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Wilson, Harold
