NB. Under Construction
The joy of quotations is that it allows for the creation of the illusion that one is widely read. [Action still in hand on this post]
Absenteeism.
The House of Lords “The only institution in the world that can function only by mass absenteeism.” Willie Hamilton MP
“When the mouse is away the cats will play.” Churchill on Attlee when the latter cancelled a visit to Australia.
Academics: “Tenured professors enjoy all the privileges of the academy in return for relentless debunking of the civilization that made this possible.” Roger Scruton
Action: “Well done is better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin
Adultery:
“Do not adultery commit Advantage rarely comes of it” Arthur Clough
Agreement: “When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking” George Patton
Air Power: “To be defeated in the air means defeat”. Douhet
Alcohol:
“Lechery Sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire and takes away the performance” Porter, Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2
Americans: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else” Winston Churchill
Ambition:
Anger: “Anger is brief madness” Horace
Animals: “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals” Winston Churchill
Anne: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay then she isn’t interested” – speaking about his daughter, Princess Anne. Prince Philip
Appeaser: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last” Winston Churchill
Argument: “Dont raise your voice, improve your argument” Anonymous
Armed Forces: “Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi et consilium domi” which=Armed forces are of scant value abroad, without wise counsel at Home.” Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 – 43 BC
Artillery:
Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl. Folk Law!
“The war of 1914-18 was an artillery war: artillery was the battle-winner, artillery was what caused the greatest loss of life, the most dreadful wounds, and the deepest fear”. John Terraine
“Most historians would agree that the first word war was an artillery war, at least 58 percent of British casualties were produced by artillery or mortar shells, compared to 38 percent caused by rifle or machine gun fire. Artillery was the decisive weapon, playing the major role initially in creating the stalemate on the Western Front and finally in breaking that deadlock and bringing victory”. Donald Boyd.
Assurance: “Assurance depends on one’s surroundings” Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Attitude: “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference” Winston Churchill
Attlee:
“He was a man who tucked his personality behind a pipe and left colleagues and public to make what they could of all the smoke signals” F Newman, Daily Sketch
“An empty taxi pulled up at Number 10 and Atlee got out. Modest? He has much to be modest about” Winston Churchill
Authority: “If you are looking for somebody with a little authority – try me I’ve got as little as anyone else” Anon
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Begging: “Those who beg in silence starve in silence” Indian Proverb
Bias: “It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give an unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless” Oscar Wilde
Birth:
Blindness: “It is better to be totally blind than to see things from one side only” African Proverb
Bob Hope:
‘When I was born, the doctor said to my mother: ‘Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham.’
‘A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.’
‘A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.’
‘She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.’
‘Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me. And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!’
‘Welcome to the Academy Awards – or as it`s known at my house, Passover.’
‘I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.’
He joked that he still had a bit of British him, adding “In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade”.
‘Television. That’s where movies go when they die.’
‘I have too much money invested in sweaters.’
‘Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands.’
‘I thought about running for the presidency. But my wife said she wouldn’t want to move into a smaller house.’
‘You can always tell when a man’s well-informed. His views are pretty much like yours.’
‘I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.’
‘Watergate gave dirty politics a bad name’
‘When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.’
‘Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.’
‘I thought Deep Throat was a movie about a giraffe.’
‘I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.’
‘You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.’
Bravery:
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there’s a hole nearby. African Proverb, Nigeria
Breast Feeding
Head Shrink: “Were you breast fed?” Harold Steptoe: “Yes we couldn’t afford proper milk” Steptoe and Son
Bullshit: “The cow that moos the loudest doesn’t give the most milk” African Proverb
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Cambridge (King’s): “Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God” Simon Raven
Capitalism: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries” Winston Churchill
Caricature: “Caricature is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius! Oscar Wilde
Chamberlain (Neville):
“I tell you that I am not dictatorial. I am not autocratic. I am not intolerant. I am not overpowering. You’re wrong, wrong, wrong I tell you. I am the most relaxed and understanding of people. None of you, I insist, must never say I am dictatorial again” Neville Chamberlain briefing the Press in the Cabinet Room
“….the most authoritarian, intolerant and arrogant of all the Premiers I have known” James Margach, Abuse of Power
Change: “All great change in America begins at the dinner table” Ronald Reagan
Children:
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” Herbert Hoover
“If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain indeed you have lived in vain! Gorky
Class: “People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.” Prince Philip
Chinese: “if it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Prince Philip
Children (are quick):
Teacher (T) – Why are you late?
Child (C) – The class started before I got there
T – John, why are you doing your maths multiplication on the floor?
C – You told me to do it without using tables
T – James, how do you spell crocodile?
C – K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
T – Maybe it is wrong but but you asked me how I spell it
T – Bill, tell me what is the chemical formula for water?
C – H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O
T – What are you talking about?
C – Yesterday you said it was H to O
T – Beryl, tell me one important thing we have today that we didn’t have ten years ago
C – Me
T – Alan, why do you always get so dirty?
C – Well, I’m a lot closer to the ground than you are
T – George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry tree but also admitted it. Now Roger, do you know why his father didn’t punish him?
C – Because George still had the axe in his hand
T – Simon, tell me frankly, do you say your prayers before having a meal?
C – No sir, I don’t have to, my Mum is a good cook
T – David, your composition on ‘My Dog’ is exactly the same as your brother’s. Did you copy his?
C – No Sir, it’s the same dog
T – Dick what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
C – A Teacher
Clausewitz – ‘More often quoted than read’:
“Blood is the price of victory”
“Everything is very simple in war but the simplest things is difficult”
“A continuation of political intercourse with a mixture of other means”
“It is politics that begets war”
“War is the province of chance”
Commerce. “Commerce is the ultimate instrument of poverty alleviation, conflict resolution and social justice.” Daniel Hannan, Daily Telegraph 27 October 2016
Commitment: “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” Vincent Van Gogh
Conscription: “Conscription may have been good for the country but it damn near killed the Army” Field Marshal Hull
Conservatives:
“Conservatives resonate to Burke’s view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead” Roger Scruton
“The true conservative cause, when it comes to universities, ought to be the restoration of judgment to its central place in the humanities” Roger Scruton
Consistency: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind” Thomas Carlyle
Corporations: “Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism. … We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.” Teddy Roosevelt
Country:
“The Green Belt is a Labour Policy, and we intend to build on it” Lord Prescott
“The English country gentleman galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable” Oscar Wilde
Courage:
“No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” Ronald Reagan
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.” Winston Churchill
Cricket: “Organised loafing” William Temple, Headmaster Repton (Later Archbishop of Canterbury)
Crisis Management: “The first rule of crisis management is full disclosure” John McTernan DT 26 July 2013
Critical: “It is much easier to be critical than to be correct” Benjamin Disraeli
Cruelty: A man should “Commit all his cruelties at once” Machiavelli
Culture:
“Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without using your hands.” Bob Hope
“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Death:
JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded: “Does that include those who are buried here?”
“Say not goodbye but in a brighter clime bid me good morning.” Anna Letitia Barbauld
“His life is a treasured memory, his death a silent grief” James Joyce
“After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well” Shakespeare: Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
“This one’s on me” (Gravestone)
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (“It is sweet and right to die for your country”) Horace
Democracy:
“Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.” Manuel Barroso
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Winston Churchill
“I have never believed that democracy brings progress.” Lee Kuan Yew
“The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.” William Henry Harrison
Dependence: “Dependence begets subservience & venality, suffocates the germ of virtue.” Thomas Jefferson
Deterrence:
“The age of overkill.” Max Lerner
“The process of influencing the enemy’s intentions.” Snyder
Diet: “For health purposes, I’ve reclassified #bacon as a vegetable. For liability purposes, I am not a nutritionist.” JS Morin
Diplomacy:
“Diplomatic power is but the shadow cast by military power.” Charles Moore, DT 19 May 2012
“The art of letting other people have your way” ?
“An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country” Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to James I
Disarmament:
“The way to disarm is to disarm.” Litvinov
“Being disarmed renders you contemptible.” Machiavelli
Disraeli: “He is a self-made man and worships his maker” J.W. Lewis, History of Essex County, Massachusetts 1888 (also said of Dosraeli?)
Disorder: “Never allow a disorder to take place to avoid a war.” Machiavelli
Diversion: “Make an uproar in the East and strike in the West.” Mao Tse Tung
Do: “Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” Albert Schweitzer
Doctors:
“Doctors prescribe medicines about which they know nothing for an organism about which they know even less” Voltaire
or
(Medical Treatment) “The art of pouring drugs of which one knew nothing into a patient of whom one knew less” Richardson after Voltaire
Drinking:
“Nunc est bibendum.” (Now is the time for drinking) Horace
“I drink to make other people more interesting” Nathan
“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.” Ian Fleming, Thunderball
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Economics: “Economic giant, political dwarf.” Chancellor W Brandt on West Germany
Eden (Anthony):
“…the one who loses control over his Cabinet loses himself” James Margach, Abuse of Power
“He was the last Prime Minister to believe Britain was a great power and the first to confront a crisis which proved she was not.” Lord Blake
Education:
“Prior to the reforms of the 1850s, Oxford was, in effect, a seminary for the Established Church. It is in danger of resuming that role as a madrasa for Guardianistas.” Professor Joseph Conlon, Daily Telegraph 7th September 2017
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching – that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.” Oscar Wilde
“All our kids are brilliant.” Sally Collier, Head of Ofqual
Efficiency: “It is not good enough for one to be efficient, one should also look efficient.” Field Marshal Bill Slim
Egalitarianism: “When everybody is somebody no one’s anybody.” G&S – Gilbert
Emotions: “Something ridiculous about the emotions of somebody one has ceased to love.” Oscar Wilde
Empire: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!” Winston Churchill
Enemies:
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Winston Churchill
“Mr Bernard Shaw has no enemies but is immensely disliked by his friends” Oscar Wilde
Enterprise: “Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.” Winston Churchill
Enthusiasm: “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Environment: “The Green Belt is a Labour Party policy, and we intend to build on it.” John Prescott
Envy:
“The spirit of envy can destroy. It can never build.” Margaret Thatcher 1975
“Envy and wrath shorten the life.” New Testament: Ecclesiasticus
Eternity: “A fool, if offered eternity, would not know what to do with it.” Epicurus
Etiquette: “Only fools make fun of etiquette; it simplifies life.” Talleyrand
EU:
“I felt as if I were going as a slave to Rome. The whole relationship was wrong. Here was I, an elected man who could be removed, and here were these people with more power than I had and no accountability to anybody.” Tony Benn
“Everything that has gone wrong in Britain dates from joining the European Union.” Sir Peter Tapsell 22nd March 2014
“Most people here would prefer to be part of Russia. We are a small nation and can’t be independent. And I am scared of the EU. They are very different from us. We here have a Russian soul.” Andrei Dabrovichi, Citizen of Transdneister DT 24 May 2014
Evil:
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Ronald Reagan
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke
Examination Howlers (Army Staff):
A sovereign state is one which acknowledges the existence of no other state in the world
A classic case of Limited War where not even weapons were used
Outward pressures from within the state
Expectations: “’tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were heaven, if we knew what it were.” John Suckling
Experience:
“It is only the fine natures that profit by experience.” Margot Asquith
“Experience is the name men give to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde
Explanation:
Eye: “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Failure:
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.” Truman Capote
“My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.” Walker Percy, The Second Coming
Faithfulness: “Simply a confession of failure” Oscar Wilde
Fanatic: “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” Winston Churchill
Fascism: “There can be a fascism of the Left.” Shirley (now Baroness) Williams
Fatherhood: “Wife and baby starving send money soonest.” He replied: “Sorry no money suggest eat baby.” Simon Raven
“You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” Winston Churchill
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender” Winston Churchill
Flying (bad flight): “It’s great to be back on terra cotta.” John Prescott
Fool:
“There are two kinds of fools: one says, ‘This is old, therefore it must be good’ and those who think ‘this is new therefore it must be better’” Dean Inge
“A fool uttereth all his mind.” Proverbs Chapter 29 verse 11
Force: “I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect” Oscar Wilde
Foreign Affairs:
“My position is that I want to make our position clear. The example in Germany is just one example for example.” John Prescott
“Nothing more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the British Aristocracy.” John Bright on Foreign Policy
Freedom/Liberty: “The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of Members of Parliament.” Rousseau
Friendship:
“Friendship is a word. I care for nobody.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“Friendship is love without wings.” Lord Byron
“Man will never be free until the last King is strangles with the entrails of the last Priest.” Diderot
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” Martin Niemöller
“Oh how I long to run away from normal days! I want to run wild with my imagination.” Lewis Carroll
“I´m not crazy. My reality is just different from yours.” Lewis Carroll
“Your ultimate freedom is to assert your right to decide who you are, what you feel and what you need.” Lewis Carroll
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Gambling:
“There is nothing arid in the deep, the almost sexual satisfaction, which comes from an evening of steady and disastrous losses”. Simon Raven
“We are going to get a good deal for them. Never give anything for nothing.” Neil Kinnock 8 January 1984
“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things.” Marquis of Halifax
Genius: “When I had to fill in a census paper I gave my age as 19, my profession as genius, my infirmity as talents.” Oscar Wilde
Gentleman:
“A gentleman believes a woman when she is lying.” Gabriel Jaffe ST 18/12/11
“A gentleman is someone who gets out of the bath to use the lavatory” FS (Fred) Trueman
Giants:
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God:
“God is dead, but 50,000 social workers have risen to take his place.” Dr JD McCoughey
Government:
“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” Ronald Reagan
“The most terrifying words in the English Language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan
“It’s government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable. Coercive power goes a long way toward explaining political corruption.” Walter Williams
Government breaks your legs, hands you a crutch, and says, “If it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.” Harry Browne
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” Ronald Reagan
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” Ronald Reagan
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Ronald Reagan
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.” Ronald Reagan
Great Britain:
“Victory reinforced the illusion of great power.” Ball
“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.” Dean Acheson
Great Men:
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it usually Judas who writes his biography.” Oscar Wilde
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” Muhammad Ali
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Happy:
“Why be happy when you can be normal?” Jeanette Winterton’s adoptive mother’s reaction to the former’s declaration of lesbian love
“Happiness then is a pursuit, not an attainment.” Scrope Davies
“The cells of the heart which nature built for joy die through disuse.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Hate:
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Headmaster: “Headmasters are like tea bags, you never know their strength until you put them in hot water.” Peter Points, Headmaster of Pangbourne College
Health: “Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint.” Mark Twain
Heart: “The heart is not the organ for sentiment!” Napoleon Bonaparte
Heath:
“Ted alas takes the other view that the Party exists to serve the leader.” Edward du Cann
“Another aspect of his presidential approach to power was his domination of the Cabinet. In my experience no Prime Minister rivalled his control. He was a one-man Government.” James Margach, Abuse of Power
“When Prime Minister he became authoritarian and intolerant.” James Margach, Abuse of Power
“Heath’s insistence on continuing with Retail Price Maintenance Bill played a significant part in the downfall of Alec Douglas-Home.” James Margach, Abuse of Power
Hedonism:
“I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world.” Oscar Wilde
“Nothing succeeds like excess.” Oscar Wilde
Hell:
“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill
“Hell is other people.” Jean Paul Sartre
Help: ‘You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.’ Abraham Lincoln
History:
“That dreadful record of crime known as history.” Oscar Wilde
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” Winston Churchill
“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.” Winston Churchill
Homelessness: “Any definition of homelessness that suggest that people haven’t got a home is not good.” John Prescott
Home (Alec Douglas-Home): “He [Home] resigned with honour, unlike his predecessor who was constitutionally deposed by the Party’s majority and was dragged screeching from his perch despite the support of the very newspapers which had been heavily committed to the removal of Alec Douglas-Home.” James Margach, Abuse of Power
Honesty:
“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people.” Warren Buffett
“Man is kept honest by restraint.” Machiavelli
“Man must be caressed or annihilated.” Machiavelli
On being asked if he hated Winston Churchill, Alanbrooke responded: “Hate him? I don’t hate him. I love him. But the first time I tell him I agree with him when I don’t will be the time to get rid of me, for then I can be no more use to him.” FM Lord Alanbrooke
Horror: “Better an end in horror than a horror without end.” Adolf Hitler
House of Lords: “Visible proof of life after death.” BBC Any Questions
Humility:
“Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.” Golda Mayer
“In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superseded.” Lord Longford
Husbands: “Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended.” Mae West, Zsa Zsa Gabor or Marilyn Monroe?
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I: “Remember the three Is: Intelligence, initiative and inthusiasm” Cavalry General addressing young officers.” (Apocryphal? Maybe not!)
Ideas: “Ideas are the investments which only produce a dividend in the hands of a man of talent.” African Proverb
Ignorance: “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin
Importance: “At dinner it doesn’t so much matter what’s on the table as what’s on the chairs.” African Proverb
Impromptu: “Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.” FE Smith
Inactivity:
“….generations of man from Gentz to Taaffe who elevated the art of inactivity into a way of life.” Edward Pearce, Daily Telegraph 13/11/76
“The secret to success in the Army is total inactivity…. And after all I should know.” Major General David Fraser, GOC 4th Armoured Division at Gorlitz, North German Plain C1971
“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world. The most difficult and most intellectual.” Oscar Wilde
Indecision: “I used to be indecisive but now I am not so sure.” Bill Pertwee
Inferiority: “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Institution: “An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” Emerson
Insult:
President Truman on General Douglas MacArthur –
“Oriental despot”
MacArthur on Truman
“The little storekeeper”
Intelligence: “The gathering of knowledge by clandestine means was repulsive to the feelings of English gentlemen.” Official Report
Islam:
J
Job Search: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen
Justice: Proverbs 21:15 “When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.” The Bible
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Knowledge:
“Knowledge is power.” Francis Bacon
“They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study” Oscar Wilde
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Lady: “A lady is a woman who is sure of her position.” Beverley Nichols
Land: “Nobody’s making it anymore.” Mark Twain
Laws:
“Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” Jonathan Swift
“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill
Leadership:
“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Leadership is the ability to get others to do what they don’t want to do and like it!” Harry S Truman
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit” Arnold Glasgow
“Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things.” Peter F. Drucker (?)
“…to rally men and women to a common purpose.” Bernard Montgomery
“The battle for the hearts and minds of men.” Bernard Montgomery
“….respect for way down the line; a demonstrated record of guts, industry, loyalty down, judgment, fairness and honesty under pressure.” Robert Townsend
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.” Lao Tzu
“What we want in industry in this country is not bosses but leaders.” Lord Vic Feather
“A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon Bonaparte
Leisure: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.” Prince Philip
Lesbian: A collective of lesbian plumbers “Stopcock”. Ian Dunlop
Liberty: See Freedom
Life:
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin
“The only purpose of life is to avoid boredom.” Michael Winner
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Who shall I call on? Who will share with me the wretched happiness of staying alive.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“It were better never to have lived at all than to leave no trace of one’s existence.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein
Listen and Learn:
“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.” Dalai Lama
Lloyd George: “…..in the moment of supreme triumph decline begins to do its work, undermining, weakening and finally destroying not only the reputations but also the power and authority of our heroes.” Lord Beaberbrook, Decline and Fall of Lloyd George
Love:
“I fell in love with myself when I was 12 and I have never been unfaithful.” Ian Dunlop
“Always toward absent lovers love’s tide stronger flows.” Propertius
“Love is the absence of judgment.” Dalai Lama
“Eat when you are hungry, love when you’re young.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“You have to kiss an awful lot of frogs to find a prince.” Graffito
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn’t love her.” Oscar Wilde
Love Letters: “The constant cry from the hungry heart.” Masson on Napoleon’s Love Letters to Josephine
Loyalty: “Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.” William Tecumseh Sherman
Luck: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Seneca
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson
Luxury: “The luxury of self-reproach.” Oscar Wilde
Lying: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill
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Manners: “He was the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.” Byron, Don Juan
Marriage:
“That’s the kind of womb I want to marry.” Napoleon
“A capitulation to sameness, an end of self-development, an unnatural death of the spirit.” Irving Wallace
“Marriage is the tomb of love.” Irving Wallace
“Every woman should marry – and no man.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Marriage is like a violin: After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.” Playboy Magazine (used in my only Best Man speech – it was not well received!)
“Don’t marry the person you can live with – marry the one you cannot live without” Clough
“Not a day passes without my regretting not having married him; but there is never a night when I congratulate myself over it.” On Isvolsky
Middle Class: “Middle-class, for which read respectable, prying, puritanical, penny-pinching, joyless.” Simon Raven
Misery:
“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.” Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka
Mistakes:
“Never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake. That’s bad manners.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Moaners: “It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.” Edmund Burke
Modesty: “Modesty is a mania with mediocre people.” Stephen Vizinczey?
Money:
“All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.” Prince Philip
“There are three ways of losing your money – women, gambling and engineers. The first two are pleasanter but the last is much the most certain” James de Rothschild
“Money is the artery of war.” Peter the Great
Moral Behaviour:
Lee Kuan Yew was shocked about the promiscuity of the British as back as the 1940s while en route by sea he observed Servicemen and women “unashamedly making love on the lifeboat deck”
“To do the right thing is normally the right thing to do.” Lord Grey
Music:
The only sensual pleasure without vice
“Hell is full of amateur musicians.” GB Shaw
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” Elvis Presley
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Narcissist:
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.” Voltaire
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” Oscar Wilde
“I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.” Kurt Cobain
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” Gore Vidal
National Interest:
“The general and continuing ends for which a nation acts.” Frankel
“Self-preservation is the first duty of the nation.” Hamilton
Night:
“Or in the night imagining some fear How easy is a bush supposed a bear.” Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Norman Wisdom:
“Not a very pleasant man…always making a pass, hand up your skirt first thing in the morning.” Fenella Fielding
Novels: “The relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.” Oscar Wilde
Novelty: “Novelty is a mental laxative not tolerated by the military monk.” Fuller
Nuclear: “The roof has been blown off the state.” Hertz
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Obesity: “Obesity is widespread.” Graffito
Obituary: “He shared his bottle – and, when still young and appetising, his bed.” Simon Raven
Obligations: “Crime, drugs, illegitimacy, and divorce all stem from a single cause: the inability to recognize obligations that are stronger than desire.” Roger Scruton
Offence: “I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you can avoid it; the new culture tells us that you should always take offence if you can.” Roger Scruton
Old Age: “Old ages is a privilege.” Dali Lama
Olympics: citius altius fortius “Faster, higher, stronger.” Motto of the Modern Olympics
Optimism: “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” Dr Pangloss, Candide by Voltaire
Order: “Order in affairs maintains peace of mind.” Korolenko
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Paranoia: “Just because paranoiac it does not mean that nobody is plotting against me.” Anon
Peerage: “When I want a peerage I will pay for it like any honest man.” Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe!)
Peace: “Peace is our profession.” Motto of US Strategic Air Command
Pessimist: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
Plans: “The best laid plans of mice and men are carefully filed away somewhere.” Graffito
Pleasing: “He who strives to please all men deserves to please none.” Thomas Carlyle
Pleasure: “Pleasure will always make a stronger appeal than wisdom.” Margot Asquith
Political Correctness: “Political Correctness is a doctrine, recently fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end!” President Harry S Truman
Politics:
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. Oscar Am ringer, “the Mark Twain of American Socialism”
“I offered my opponents a deal: if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them.” Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.” Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
“We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.” Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM. I’m beginning to believe it.” Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone
“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” John Quinton, American actor/writer
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.” Henry Kissinger
“Many of the political conflicts of our time are conflicts over words. This truth was abundantly illustrated by the history of Communism.” Roger Scruton
“Nietzsche’s popularity today is owing to the same feature that explains Marx’s popularity in the 1960s: the promise of power.” Roger Scruton
“I am the right wing of the middle of the road.” Dorothy Parker
(1994 Campaign) – “This will be….about Labour’s values as we move towards the 20th Century Politics on John Major’s Government: Here we have a Government disintegrating between our eyes.” John Prescott
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” Winston Churchill
“There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting though many of them would be the better for a little whitewashing.” Oscar Wilde
“If I define I exclude.” Juan Peron
Poor: “The very poor are recruited from the people who refuse to think.” Henry Ford
Population: “Overpopulation leads to insecurity and unrest.” Aldous Huxley
Power:
“Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined himself.” Machiavelli
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Margaret Thatcher
“If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, you probably will not.” GK Chesterton
“My mistress is power.” Napoleon Bonaparte
Press:
“The job of a newspaper is to bring into public information the acts and processes of power…..” and to this end a paper should be able to discuss “the attitudes of Civil Servants with the same freedom that it discusses the attitude of politicians.” William (Lord) Rees-Mogg
“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.” Stanley Baldwin
“YOU have mosquitos. I have the Press.” To the matron of a hospital in the CaribbeanPrince Philip
“The newspaper is not an organ through which the Government can influence people, but through which people can influence the Government.” Thomas Barnes, Editor of the Times 1817-1841
“…..the patron saint of appeasement.” On Dawson Editor of The Times, James Margach, Abuse of Power
Pressure: “No pressure, no diamonds.” Thomas Carlyle
Prophet: “No man’s a prophet in his own country.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Public Debt: ‘I place economy among the first & most important of republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.’ Jefferson
Public Relations: “Organised lying.” Malcolm Muggeridge
Public Schools: “I resented Sherborne for its closed mind, its collective capacity for rejecting anything that did not conform to the image of manhood as portrayed in the ripping yarns of a scouting manual.” John Le Mesurier
Punctuality: “Punctuality is the thief of time.” Oscar Wilde
Purpose: “If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their Archbishop.” Machiavelli
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Questions:
The man in the wilderness said to me
‘How many strawberries grow in the sea?’
I answered him as best I could,
‘As many red herrings as grow in the wood’. Said to be a chant to banish an evil spirit
“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.” Ronald Reagan
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Reality:
“Reality is an illusion created by an alcohol deficiency.” Graffito
“The unwholesome anxiety of reality.” Assistant Chief Constable Collier, Met Police to Staff College (1976)
Reasonableness:
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself – therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
Religion: “Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.” Lord Melbourne
Research:
Plagiarize, Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don’t shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize…
Only be sure always to call it please, “research”. Tom Lehrer
Resettlement: “Anybody who does not look at this source of manpower for the future is, in my opinion, really missing out.” Sir John Harvey Jones
Responsibility: “A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.” Devil’s Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
Revenge: “When seeking revenge; remember to dig two graves.” Vicky Pryce
Revolution:
“The revolutionary consciousness lives by abstract ideas, and regards people as material upon which to conduct its intellectual experiments” Roger Scruton
“It is as though the revolutionists sought to destroy not opposition only, but the language through which opposition could be focused” Roger Scruton
“Under revolutionary justice you are tried, in the end, not for what you do but for what you are.” Roger Scruton
“The opposite of what exists at present.” R Dutschke
Riots: “Riots are the voice of the unheard.” Martin Luther King
Robbery:
Brigand – “I am a brigand. I live by robbing the rich”
Tanner – “I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands.” Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
Ronald Reagan: He deserves his own section.
http://www.famous-quote.net/ronald-reagan-quotes.html
Royal Navy: “It is upon the navy under the good Providence of God that the safety, honour and welfare of this realm do chiefly depend” Preamble to. ” Articles of War”, written by King Charles II
Rules:
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Safety: “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.” Shakespeare: Henry V
Salt: “Drops of fresh water in the salt sea of life.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Security:
“The biggest single risk to security at the present time is probably a general lack of conviction that any substantial threat exists.” Lord Radcliffe April 1962
Seminars: “Everybody comes to seminars not to learn anything – they really come to find out what they’re already doing is right…” David H Sandler
Seriousness: “Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.” Oscar Wilde
Sex:
“The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable.” Lord Chesterfield
“Familiarity breeds no attempt.” The Fan Club Irving Wallace
“Sex is an emotion in motion.” Mae West
“Snow White thought 7up was a drink until she met the dwarfs.” Graffito
“A mote in the eye
Makes everyone cry
But no woman’s hurt
By a yard up her skirt.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“….several valuable and lasting lessons. Firstly that sex (of whatever kind), although matchless as an occasional diversion, is too ridiculous to be taken seriously; secondly, that it is too trivial to be allowed to interfere with more stable and satisfying preoccupations, such as cricket and the flicks or (later) horse racing and books; and thirdly, that sex is best spiced with a degree of shamelessness which love or serious affection would probably inhibit.” Simon Raven
“I like all four types,” he once said, “amateur and professional men and amateur and professional women.” Simon Raven
Silence: “He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.” Oscar Wilde
Sleeping Rough: “Any definition of homelessness that suggests that people haven’t got a home is not good”. John Prescott
Snobbish: “meaning that they rank good taste over bad”
“It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.” PG Wodehouse
To Scottish driving instructor in Oban: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Prince Philip
Shakespeare: “Everything’s alright if it’s Shakespeare.” Anon
Sleep:
“Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” William Shakespeare
“The trouble with me is I don’t wake up until I go to bed.” (Major) Tony Northey
Socialism:
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.” Frederic Bastiat
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society.” Frederic Bastiat
“By softening the brains of the intellectual class, ideology prepares the way for the statist machine far more effectively than any army.” Roger Scruton
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” Winston Churchill
“Thinking on the left is dominated by a kind of zero-sum illusion. Those who succeed do so at the expense of those who fail” Roger Scruton
Society:
“The imposition of ‘correct’ opinions by a minority of the grandstanding political class on everybody else is a cancer of our society”. Simon Heffer 18 Jun 2017
“I don’t want to live in a tolerant society. I want to live in a very intolerant society.” Michael Winner
“To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people – that is all.” Oscar Wilde
Soldiers: “Soldiers are made to be killed.” Napoleon
Soul: “You must speak to the soul in order to electrify the man.” Napoleon
Speaking: “I cannot yet speak enough to be unintelligible.” Jane Austin
Staff: “We are at equal risk from the enemy and those planners behind in the remoteness of safety.” West Yorkshire Regiment NCO 3 September 1916
States:
“States do not have friends, only interests.” Charles de Gaulle
“An organised political community – recognition of sovereignty, territorial integrity and legal equality.” Encyclopedia of Public International Law – Volume 10
Statues:
“Yesterday’s statues are tomorrow’s pots and pans.” Juvenal?
Strength: “The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.” Winston Churchill
Success:
“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” Gore Vidal
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” Oscar Wilde
“A successful person is one who can go from one disappointment to another whilst still being enthusiastic.” Winston Churchill
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“The toughest thing about being a success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” Irving Berlin
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
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Talk:
““When all is said and done, more is said than done.” Lou Holtz
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde
“I’m not to keen on talking but if anybody is going to I’d rather it be me” JB Priestley
“There is no such thing as a good tax.” Winston Churchill
Team:
“Team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” Michael Winner
“No man can act with effect who does not act in concert.” Burke maxim
Thinking: “Whether I think I can, or whether I think I can’t, I’m right.” Henry Ford
“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Winston Churchill
Truth:
“Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” Winston Churchill
“Scarcely ever has he tripped over the truth. Winston Churchill
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Ugliness:
“I consider ugliness a kind of malady.” Oscar Wilde
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than ugly.” Oscar Wilde
Unique: “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead
Usefulness: “I only care for people who are useful to me and so long as they are useful.” Napoleon Bonaparte
Unreasonable: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
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Values:
Mahatma Ghandi’s Seven Social Sins: politics without principle; wealth without work; commerce without morality; pleasure without conscience; education without character; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice.
Victory:
“Simplicity is the key to victory.” Liddel Hart
“The secret of all victory lies in the organisation of the non-obvious.” Christmas Cracker
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.” Winston Churchill
“What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” Winston Churchill
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Walking: “It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed for this.” Dr. Johnson
Solvitur ambulando.
It’s a Latin phrase that literally means, “It is solved by walking.” Or, a little more loosely, “It is solved by walking around.”
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” Noel Coward
War (see also Clausewitz)
“If evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.” Kim, R Kipling
“War will become an anachronism – the future belongs to peace. A time will come when victories will be won without guns or bayonets.” Napoleon
“No battle was ever lost until the leader thought it so.”
“If the art of war consisted merely in not taking risks glory would be at the mercy of mediocre talent.” Napoleon
“War is politics with bloodshed. Politics is war without bloodshed.” Mao Tse Tung
“War is an option of difficulties.” Wolfe
“We are busy that we may have leisure and we make war that we may live in peace.” Aristotle
“A necessary evil which preserved the ethical health of nations.” Hegel
“War is much too serious a matter to be left to generals.” Clemenceau
“War is not a continuation of policy but a failure of policy.” Rapoport
“Political philosophy of war is bankrupt.” Rapoport
“We had to destroy the town in order to save it.” Evidence at US Vietnam Inquiry
“If you wish for peace, understand war.” Liddell Hart
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the US was too strong.” Ronald Reagan
“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” Ronald Reagan
“If you want peace, prepare for war” “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” Book 3 of Latin author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s tract De Re
“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” Winston Churchill
“There is nothing more foolish than to think that war can be stopped by war. You don’t ‘prevent’ anything by war except peace.” Harry S Truman
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.” Sir Edward Grey 1914
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” Ronald Reagan
Wealth: “The Western malady of elevating the distribution of wealth above its creation.” J Sumption
Welfare State: Turned the mass of the British people into a “segregated, subliterate, unskilled, unhealthy and institutionalised proletariat hanging on the nipple of state maternalism.” Correlli Barnett
Wisdom:
“Put behind you what’s in front of you today or you’ll wake up tomorrow with what’s behind you in front of you.” Michael Crawford (Frank Spencer in Some Mother’s Do Have Them)
“Utter the same inanity often enough and it becomes something very wise.” Thomas Aquinas
“Wisdom without eloquence is of little advantage.” Cicero
“It is with artillery that war is made.” Napoleon
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
“Not to be a Republican at twenty is proof of a want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of a head.” Guizot
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” Oscar Wilde
“God grant you the serenity to accept things you cannot change. Courage to change the things you can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Beatitudes
Woman:
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” Joseph Conrad
“A woman’s place is in the wrong.” James Thurber
Words:
“Words are the money of fools.” Thomas Hobbes
“Soft words will break your bones, hard words will raise your anger.” Russian
Work/Work Force:
“I don’t want to work, I just want a job.” Marx Brothers
“Work consists of what a body is obliged to do – play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do” Mark Twain
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back.” Oscar Wilde
“I am hard at work being idle.” Oscar Wilde
“Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.” Harvey Mackay
“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.” Robert Frost
“Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.” Mark Twain
“I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.” Teddy Roosevelt
Youth/Young
“Young people have always burned with indignation. But only in our age have they been accorded a rank equal, and sometimes superior, to those who have lived longer and seen more of those blind, pitiless forces”. Michael Henderson June 2017
‘Hollywood producer asked if he would be building bridges in his films to assist confused adolescents striving to reach the shores of adulthood: “When I was growing up there were no bridges. We swam. They can swim too.”’ Michael Henderson June 2017
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