08-04-2022, 02:13 PM
"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: “No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall”.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is belonging, not belongings.”
"Work is a toad that squats on my life."
Philip Larkin
"The worldwide slobbering over celebrities who became celebrities by slobbering over celebrities, is a felony against journalism."
Walter Goodman.
"It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
Lily Tomin
"I’ve got 99 problems & being trapped in a decaying body in a money hungry society on a dying planet in a mysterious dimension may be one."
Anon
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.
“That depends Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating
"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
"He has not one single redeeming defect"
On William Gladstone
"The right honourable gentlemen's smile is like the silver fittings of a coffin."
On Robert Peel.
Disraeli
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is belonging, not belongings.”
"Work is a toad that squats on my life."
Philip Larkin
"The worldwide slobbering over celebrities who became celebrities by slobbering over celebrities, is a felony against journalism."
Walter Goodman.
"It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
Lily Tomin
"I’ve got 99 problems & being trapped in a decaying body in a money hungry society on a dying planet in a mysterious dimension may be one."
Anon
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.
“That depends Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating
"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
"He has not one single redeeming defect"
On William Gladstone
"The right honourable gentlemen's smile is like the silver fittings of a coffin."
On Robert Peel.
Disraeli
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)