Prince Charles in Canada - An editorial cartoon that summarizes the Prince's royal visit to Canada in April 2001.
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Prince Charles, Prince of Wales It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Prince Charles, Prince of Wales Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Prince Charles, Prince of Wales The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Prince Charles, Prince of Wales "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Prince Charles, Prince of Wales Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Prince Charles, Prince of Wales "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Prince Charles, Prince of Wales "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Prince Charles, Prince of Wales "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Prince Charles, Prince of Wales "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Prince Charles, Prince of Wales As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prince Charles, Prince of Wales If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
