Britain Unlimited - History and influences of 250 famous Britons, their works and places they visited
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams 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 History "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson History
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce History The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill History
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) History The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball History
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire History When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "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 History
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) History Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) History
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst History 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans History
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker History The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan History
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 History If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright History
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius History We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting History
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca History We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb History
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone History If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb History
