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J.F.C. Fuller

August 27, 2010 – 9:05 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Generals, Historians, Inventors, Journalists, Military, WWI, WWII
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“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Nahum Tate

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

Ernest Bramah

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

Douglas Bader

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

Charles Dibdin

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

John Heywood

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

Charles Reade

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

F.H. Bradley

“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge”. –F.H. Bradley

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

John Bonham

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

Matthew Arnold

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

Elizabeth Gaskell

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues”. –Elizabeth Gaskell

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Edith Cavell

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me”. –Edith Cavell

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

George Saintsbury

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it”. –George Saintsbury

George Moore

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

James Allen

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

Friedrich von Hayek

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

Vernon Richards

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

William Wallace

“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free”. –William Wallace

King Henry VIII

“Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness”. –King Henry VIII

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

Mary Shelley

“It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape”. –Mary Shelley

Israel Zangwill

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled”. –Israel Zangwill

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Oliver Herford

April 23, 2010 – 3:54 am
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Journalists, Poets
Tagged America, American, American Artist, American Artists, American Author, American Authors, American Writer, American Writers, Americans, Art, Artist, Artists, Artwork, Author, Authors, Britain, British, British Empire, But Few Get Up, Call, Called, Called But Few Get Up, Calling, Calls, Few, Few Get Up, Fewer, Fewest, Get, Get Up, Gets, Getting, Got, Great Britain, Herford, Herford Quote, Herford Quotes, Humor, Humorist, Humorists, Humorous, Illustrate, Illustrated, Illustrates, Illustrating, Illustration, Illustrations, Illustrator, Illustrators, Journalism, Journalist, Journalists, Little Book of Bores, Many, Many Are, Many Are Called, Many Are Called But Few Get Up, O, O Herford, O Herford Quote, O Herford Quotes, Oliver, Oliver Herford, Oliver Herford Quote, Oliver Herford Quotes, Quote, Quotes, The American Oscar Wilde, The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom, The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903, U.K., U.S., U.S.A., UK, United Kingdom, United States, United States of America, Up, Us, USA, Write, Writer, Writers, Writes, Writing, Writings, Wrote
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“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Ronald Firbank

April 20, 2010 – 8:30 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Roman Catholic Church
Tagged Annesley, Arthur, Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank, Britain, British, British Empire, British Novelist, British Novelists, British Writer, British Writers, Camp, Camp Novels, Camping, Campy, Campy Novels, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholics, Complain, Complained, Complaining, Complains, Disgrace, Disgraced, Disgraceful, Disgracefully, Disgracefully Managed, Disgraces, Disgracing, England, English, English Novelist, English Novelists, English Writer, English Writers, Englishman, Englishmen, Firbank, Firbank Quote, Firbank Quotes, Great Britain, Hard, Harder, Hardest, Hardly, Hardly Knows, Hardly Knows To Whom To Complain, Kitsch, Kitschy, Knew, Know, Knowing, Knows, Manage, Managed, Management, Manages, Managing, Novel, Novelist, Novelists, Novels, One Hardly Knows, One Hardly Knows To Whom, One Hardly Knows To Whom To Complain, Quote, Quotes, Roman Catholic Church, Ronald, Ronald Firbank, Ronald Firbank Quote, Ronald Firbank Quotes, The World, The World Is Disgracefully Managed, The World Is Disgracefully Managed One Hardly Knows To Whom To Complain, To Whom To Complain, United Kingdom, Vainglory, World, Worlds, Write, Writer, Writers, Writes, Writing, Writings
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“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain”. –Ronald Firbank

Robert Southey

“Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust”. –Robert Southey

Geoffrey Chaucer

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde”. –Geoffrey Chaucer

Pierre Trudeau

“We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. –Pierre Trudeau

Ethan Allen

“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy”. –Ethan Allen

Thomas Francis Meagher

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

William Blake

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”. –William Blake

James Larkin

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

Thomas Carlyle

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle

Goldwin Smith

“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party”. –Goldwin Smith

Syd Barrett

“I think young people should have a lot of fun, but I never seem to have any”. –Syd Barrett

J.G. Stedman

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

Osbert Sitwell

“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space”. –Osbert Sitwell

Bob Hope

April 7, 2010 – 10:34 am
Posted in Actors, America, British Empire, Broadcasters, Comedians, Producers, WWII
Tagged A Bank, A Bank Is A Place, A Bank Is A Place That Will Lend, A Bank Is A Place That Will Lend You Money, A Bank Is A Place That Will Lend You Money If You Can Prove That You Don't Need It, A Place That Will Lend You Money, A Place That Will Lend You Money If You Can Prove That You Don't Need It, Actor, Actors, America, American, American Comedian, American Comedians, Americans, Bank, Banked, Banker, Bankers, Banking, Banks, Bob, Bob Hope, Bob Hope Classic, Bob Hope Quote, Bob Hope Quotes, Bob Hope Show, Britain, British, Broadcast, Broadcaster, Broadcasters, Broadcasting, Broadcasts, Broadway, Comedian, Comedians, Don't Need It, England, English, Englishman, Englishmen, Hope, Hope Quote, Hope Quotes, If You Can, If You Can Prove, If You Can Prove That You Don't Need It, Lend, Lended, Lending, Lends, Leslie, Leslie Townes Hope, Money, Monies, Need, Need It, Needed, Needing, Needs, Place, Places, Prove, Prove That You Don't Need It, Proved, Proven, Proves, Proving, Quote, Quotes, Second World War, The Bob Hope Classic, The Bob Hope Show, Townes, USO, USO Tours, Vaudeville, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, WWII, You Can, You Can Prove, You Don't Need It
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“A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it”. –Bob Hope

Samuel Smiles

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform”. –Samuel Smiles

Peter Jennings

“This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this, and all jobs in journalism, have believed that”. –Peter Jennings

John Stuart Mill

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

Samuel Gompers

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

T.S. Eliot

“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”. –T.S. Eliot

William Shakespeare

April 4, 2010 – 11:59 am
Posted in Actors, Authors, British Empire, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged Bard of Avon, Best, Better, Bill Shakespeare, Britain, British, England, English, English Literature, English Playwright, English Playwrights, English Poet, English Poets, Englishman, Englishmen, King Lear, King Lear Quote, King Lear Quotes, Literature, Mar, Mar What's Well, Marred, Marring, Mars, Oft, Oft We Mar, Oft We Mar What's Well, Often, Playwright, Playwrights, Poet, Poets, Quote, Quotes, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Quote, Shakespeare Quotes, Stratford Upon Avon, Strive, Strived, Strives, Striving, Striving To Better, Striving To Better Oft We Mar What's Well, The Bard of Avon, United Kingdom, Well, What's Well, William, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare Quote, William Shakespeare Quotes
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“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well”. –William Shakespeare

H.H. Asquith

“It is against British interests that France should be wiped out…” –H.H. Asquith

Yogananda

“There are always two forces warring against each other within us”. –Yogananda

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

William Hazlitt

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest”. –William Hazlitt

Charles Darwin

“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment”. –Charles Darwin

Benjamin Disraeli

“Consider Ireland. You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question”. –Benjamin Disraeli

William Penn

March 27, 2010 – 6:28 pm
Posted in Activists, America, Authors, British Empire, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Philosophers, Politicians
Tagged American Colonialism, American Colonies, Colonialism, Colonies, Colonist, Colonists, Colony, Govern, Governed, Governing, Government, Governor, Governors, Governs, Let The People Think, Let The People Think And They Will Be, Let The People Think They Govern, Let The People Think They Govern And They Will Be Governed, Penn, Penn Quote, Penn Quotes, Pennsylvania, People, Peoples, Person, Persons, Province of Pennsylvania, Quote, Quotes, They Will Be Governed, William, William Penn, William Penn Quote, William Penn Quotes
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“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”. –William Penn

Sri Aurobindo

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion”. –Sri Aurobindo

William Morris

March 27, 2010 – 1:25 am
Posted in Activists, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Designers, Historians, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged About, Another, Battle, Battles, Come, Come About, Comes, Comes About, Defeat, Defeated, Defeating, Defeats, Fight, Fighting, Fights, Fought, Fought For, Have to Fight, I Pondered, I Pondered These Things, In Spite, In Spite Of Their Defeat, Lose, Lose The Battle, Loses, Losing, Lost, Man, Mean, Meant, Men, Men Fight, Men Fight And Lose The Battle, Men Have To Fight, Morris, Morris Quote, Morris Quotes, Name, Named, Names, Naming, Other Men Have To Fight, Out, Ponder, Pondered, Pondered These Things, Pondering, Ponders, Quote, Quotes, Spite, Spites, Spiting, These Things, Thing, Things, Turn, Turn Out, Turned, Turning, Turns, Turns Out, Turns Out Not To Be What They Meant, Under, Under Another Name, What They Meant, When It Comes, William, William Morris, William Morris Quote, William Morris Quotes
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“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name”. –William Morris

William Bligh

“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements”. –William Bligh

Bob Marley

March 25, 2010 – 4:45 pm
Posted in Activists, Artists, British Empire, Jamaica, Leaders, Musicians, Performers, Rastafari Movement
Tagged Babies, Baby, Big, Bigger, Biggest, Biggest Man, Bigs, Bob, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bob Marley Quote, Bob Marley Quotes, Comin' In From The Cold, Coming In From The Cold, Ever, Man, Marley, Men, Nesta, Nesta Robert Marley, Quote, Quotes, Rasta, Rasta Music, Rastafari, Rastafarian, Rastafarians, Reggae, Reggae Music, Robert, Robert Marley, Robert Nesta Marley, See, Seeing Saw, Sees, The Wailers, Uprising, Wailers, Was, Well, Well The Biggest Man That You Ever Did See Was Just A Baby, You, You Ever Did See
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“Well, the biggest man that you ever did see was – was just a baby”. –Bob Marley

Nancy Mitford

March 25, 2010 – 2:47 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Historians
Tagged A King Who Loves Pleasure, Danger, Dangerous, Dangers, Freeman, Glories, Glorious, Gloriously, Glory, Hon, King, Kingly, Kings, Least, Less, Less Dangerous, Lesser, Love, Love Pleasure, Loved, Loves, Loves Pleasure, Loving, Mitford, Mitford Quote, Mitford Quotes, Mrs Rodd, Nancy, Nancy Freeman-Mitford, Nancy Mitford, Nancy Mitford Quote, Nancy Mitford Quotes, Pleasure, Pleasures, Quote, Quotes, Rodd, Sure, Surely, Surely A King Who Loves Pleasure Is Less Dangerous Than One Who Loves Glory, The Hon
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“Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?” –Nancy Mitford

John Vanbrugh

March 24, 2010 – 9:37 pm
Posted in Activists, Architects, Authors, British Empire
Tagged A Slighted Woman Knows No Bounds, Bound, Bounded, Bounding, Bounds, John, John Vanbrugh, John Vanbrugh Quote, John Vanbrugh Quotes, Knew, Know, Knowing, Knows, No, No Bounds, Quote, Quotes, Sir, Sir John Vanbrugh, Slight, Slighted, Slighting, Slights, Vanbrugh, Vanbrugh Quote, Vanbrugh Quotes, Woman, Women
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“A slighted woman knows no bounds”. –John Vanbrugh

T.E. Lawrence

March 23, 2010 – 2:57 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Generals, Philosophers, Poets, Revolutionaries, WWI
Tagged Act, Acted, Acting, Acts, All Men Dream, All Men Dream But Not Equally, Arab, Arabia, Arabian, Arabs, But Not Equally, Danger, Dangerous, Dangerous Men, Dangers, Day, Days, Dream, Dreamed, Dreamer, Dreamers, Dreamers of the Day are Dangerous Men, Dreaming, Dreams Dreamt, Dust, Dusty, Dusty Recesses of the Mind, Edward, Equal, Equality, Equally, Eye, Eyed, Eyes, Eying, Find, Finding, Finds, Found, Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia Quote, Lawrence of Arabia Quotes, Made, Make, Make It Possible, Makes, Making, Man, May, Men, Mind, Minds, Night, Nights, Nighttime, Not Equally, Open, Open Eyes, Opened, Opening, Opens, Possibilities, Possible, Quote, Quotes, Recess, Recesses, T.E., T.E. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence Quote, T.E. Lawrence Quotes, TE, TE Lawrence, TE Lawrence Quote, TE Lawrence Quotes, This I Did, Thomas, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Those Who Dream By Night, Vain, Vanity, Wake, Waked, Wakes, Waking, Woke
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did”. –T.E. Lawrence

James Otis

March 23, 2010 – 2:21 am
Posted in Activists, America, Authors, British Empire, Founding Fathers, Lawyers, Leaders, Politicians, Revolutionaries
Tagged America, American, American Revolution, Americans, Americas, Barter, Bartered, Bartering, Barters, Care, Care Little, Cared, Cares, Caring, Clear, Clear Truth, Clearer, Clearing, Clears, Day, Days, Every Day, Everyday, It Is A Clear Truth, It Is A Clear Truth That Those Who Every Day Barter Away Other Men's Liberty Will Soon Care Little For Their Own, James, James Otis, James Otis Jr., James Otis Jr. Quote, James Otis Jr. Quotes, James Otis Quote, James Otis Quotes, Liberties, Liberty, Little, Man, Men, Men's Liberty, Other, Other Men's Liberty, Otis, Own, Owned, Owning, Owns, Quote, Quotes, Revolution, Revolutionary, Revolutions, Soon, Those, Truth, Truthful, Truthfully, Who
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“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

William Petty

March 22, 2010 – 10:55 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Economists, Military, Philosophers, Scientists
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“That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World”. –William Petty

Henny Youngman

March 22, 2010 – 8:42 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Musicians, Performers
Tagged A Doctor, A Doctor Gave A Man Six Months To Live, Another, Another Six Months, Bill, Bills, Could Not, Couldn't, Couldn't Pay His Bill, Doctor, Doctors, Gave, Gave Him Another Six Months, Give, Henny, Henny Youngman, Henny Youngman Quote, Henny Youngman Quotes, Henry, Henry Youngman, Henry Youngman Quote, Henry Youngman Quotes, King of One-Liners, King of the One-Liner, Live, Lived, Lives, Living, Man, Men, Month, Months, Pay, Pay His Bill, Payed, Paying, Pays, Quote, Quotes, Six, Six Months, So He Gave Him Another Six Months, The Man Couldn't Pay His Bill, Youngman, Youngman Quote, Youngman Quotes
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“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months”. –Henny Youngman

John Arbuthnot

March 21, 2010 – 10:14 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Mathematicians, Musicians, Physicians, Physicists, Scientists
Tagged All, All Political Parties, All Political Parties Die At Last Of Swallowing Their Own Lies, Arbuthnot, Arbuthnot Quote, Arbuthnot Quotes, Die, Died, Dies, Doctor, Doctor Arbuthnot, Doctor Arbuthnot Quote, Doctor Arbuthnot Quotes, Dr., Dr. Arbuthnot, Dr. Arbuthnot Quote, Dr. Arbuthnot Quotes, Dying, John, John Arbuthnot, John Arbuthnot Quote, John Arbuthnot Quotes, Last, Liar, Lie, Lied, Lies, Lying, Own, Parties, Party, Politic, Political, Political Parties, Political Party, Politics, Quote, Quotes, Swallow, Swallowed, Swallowing, Swallows, Their
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“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

Thomas Malthus

“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man”. –Thomas Malthus

Francis Bacon

March 21, 2010 – 10:23 am
Posted in Anglican Church, Authors, British Empire, Christianity, Lawyers, Philosophers, Politicians, Religion, Scientists, Theologians
Tagged 1st, 1st and Only Viscount of St. Alban, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, Adverse, Adversity, Adversity Doth Best Discover Truth, Best, Discover, Discovered, Discovering, Discovers, Discovery, Doth, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon Quote, Francis Bacon Quotes, Of, Of Adversity, Only, Prosperity, Prosperity Doth Best Discover Vice, Prosperous, Quote, Quotes, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon Quote, Sir Francis Bacon Quotes, St. Alban, Truth, Truths, Viscount
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“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover truth”. –Francis Bacon

Benjamin Jowett

March 20, 2010 – 1:46 am
Posted in Anglican Church, Authors, British Empire, Christianity, Philosophers, Religion, Theologians
Tagged Ben, Ben Jowett, Ben Jowett Quote, Ben Jowett Quotes, Benjamin, Benjamin Jowett, Benjamin Jowett Quote, Benjamin Jowett Quotes, Came, Comes, Denied, Denies, Deny, Denying, Door, Doors, Doubt, Doubt Comes In At The Window, Doubt Comes In At The Window When Inquiry Is Denied At The Door, Doubted, Doubtful, Doubting, Doubts, Inquire Is Denied At The Door, Inquiries, Inquiry, Jowett, Quote, Quotes, Windows
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“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door”. –Benjamin Jowett

Virginia Woolf

March 19, 2010 – 3:31 pm
Posted in Activists, Authors, British Empire, Civil Rights Movement
Tagged Adeline, Adeline Virginia Woolf, Animal, Animals, Anybody, Begin, Beginning, Begins, Bit, Bite, Bites, Biting, Biting And Scratching Little Animal, Conscious, Conservative, Conservatives, Follow, Follower, Followers, Following, Importance, Important, Lead, Leader, Leaders, Little, Little Animal, Modern, Moderns, Once, Quote, Quotes, Scratch, Scratched, Scratches, Scratching, Self, Self-Conscious, Serious, Seriously, Slight, Slightest, Slightly, Take, Take Yourself Seriously, Valuable, Value, Values, Virginia, Virginia Wolf, Virginia Wolf Quote, Virginia Wolf Quotes, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Quote, Virginia Woolf Quotes, Woolf, Work, Worked, Working, Works, Yourself
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“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody”. –Virginia Woolf

Walter Raleigh

March 19, 2010 – 10:11 am
Posted in Adventurers, Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Explorers, Leaders, Military, Philosophers, Poets, Protestant Church
Tagged Follow, Follow Truth Too Near the Heals, Followed, Following, Follows, Happily, Happy, Heel, Heels, Histories, History, Modern, Near, Neared, Nearing, Nears, Quote, Quotes, Raleigh, Shall Follow Truth, Sir, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh Quote, Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes, Strike, Strikes, Striking, Struck, Teeth, Tooth, Truth, Truths, Walter, Walter Raleigh, Walter Raleigh Quote, Walter Raleigh Quotes, Whosoever, Write, Writes, Writing, Writing Modern History, Written
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“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

Graham Greene

March 18, 2010 – 9:59 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Religion, Roman Catholic Church
Tagged A Petty Reason, Distance, Distant, Fiction, Fictional, Graham, Graham Green, Graham Green Quote, Graham Green Quotes, Graham Greene, Graham Greene Quote, Graham Greene Quotes, Green, Green Quote, Green Quotes, Greene, Greene Quote, Greene Quotes, Journal, Journalist, Journalists, Journals, Keep, Keep a Distance, Novel, Novelist, Novelists, Novels, Perhaps, Petty, Petty Reason, Quote, Quotes, Reason, Tried, Truth, Truths, Try, Trying, Trying to Write Fiction, Trying to Write Truth, Write, Writing, Wrote
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“A petty reason, perhaps, why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction”. –Graham Greene

Robert Graves

March 18, 2010 – 7:27 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Historians, Military, Poets, WWI
Tagged Beside, Besides, Come, Comes, Familiar, Graves, Graves Quote, Graves Quotes, Like, Look, Looks, Nobody, Nobody Is Familiar With His Own Profile, One, Own, People, Peoples, Person, Persons, Portrait, Portraits, Profile, Profiles, Quote, Quotes, Ranke, Really, Robert, Robert Graves, Robert Graves Quote, Robert Graves Quotes, Robert Ranke Graves, See, Sees, Shock, Shocked, Shocking, Shocks, Stand, Standing, Stands, Stood, That, When
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“Nobody is familiar with his own profile, and it comes as a shock when one sees it in a portrait, that one really looks like that to people standing beside one”. –Robert Graves

Arthur C. Clarke

March 17, 2010 – 2:42 pm
Posted in Adventurers, Authors, British Empire, Explorers, Inventors, Scientists, WWII
Tagged Arthur, Arthur C. Clark, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Charles Clark, Arthur Charles Clarke, C, Charles, Child Hood's End, Childhood's End, Clark, Clarke, Demonstrate, Demonstrated, Demonstrates, Demonstrating, Destroy, Disprove, Disproved, Disproving, Existence, Few, Followed, Follower, Followers, Following, Ignore, Ignored, Ignoring, Non, Non-Existence, Now, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Religions, Science, Science Can Destroy Religion by Ignoring It, Sir, Sir Arthur C. Clark, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Sir Arthur Charles Clark, Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Tenet, Tenets, Thor, Tor, Zeus
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“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

H.G. Wells

March 17, 2010 – 10:39 am
Posted in Artists, Authors, British Empire, Historians, Journalists, Politicians, Scientists, Theologians
Tagged A Time Will Come, Come, Dissension, Dissent, Dock, Docks, Gamble, Gambled, Gambles, Gambling, George, H.G., H.G. Wells, Herbert, Herbert George Wells, HG, HG Wells, Homicide, Homicides, International, International Dissension, Life, Live, Lives, Made, Made War, Men, Men's Lives, Mens, Much, Noose, Nooses, Not, Own, Politic, Politician, Politicians, Politics, Private, Private Homicide, Promote, Promoted, Promoted International Dissension, Quote, Quotes, Reasonable, Should, Stake, Stakes, Sure, Surer, Their, Time, Times, War, Wars, Wells, Will, Willful, Willfully, Willfully Made War
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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

J. Paul Getty

March 17, 2010 – 12:20 am
Posted in America, British Empire, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists
Tagged Be, Change, Changed, Changes, Changing, Could, Enemies, Enemy, Experience, Experienced, Experiences, Experiencing, Getty, In Times of Rapid Change, J, J. Paul Getty, Jean, Jean Getty, Jean Paul Getty, Paul, Paul Getty, Quote, Quotes, Rapid, Rapid Changes, Rapidly, Time, Times, Times of Rapid Change, Worst, Your
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“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy”. –J. Paul Getty

Francis Galton

March 16, 2010 – 10:19 pm
Posted in Adventurers, Authors, British Empire, Explorers, Geographers, Inventors, Meteorologists, Scientists, Statisticians
Tagged Barbarian, Barbarians, Barbarity, Barbarous, Barbarous Land, Barbarous Lands, Civil, Civilization, Civilized, Diminish, Diminished, Diminishing, Effect, Effects, Francis, Francis Galton, Galton, Land, Lands, Law, Law of Natural Selection, Laws, Live, Lives, Natural, Natural Selection, Nature, One, Perish, Perished, Perishes, Preserve, Preserved, Preserves, Preserving, Quote, Quotes, Rigor, Rigorous, Rigors, Selection, Selections, Sir, Sir Francis Galton, The Law of Natural Selection, Weak, Weaker, Weakest, Weakly, Weakly Lives, Would
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“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Peter Sellers

March 16, 2010 – 6:14 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Performers, WWII
Tagged Admit, Admit Defeat, Admits, Admitted, Admitting, Any, Comedian, Comedians, Comedy, Defeat, Defeated, Defeating, Face, Face Them, Faces, Form, Forms, Henry, Horrible, Label, Labels, Peter, Peter Sellers, Quote, Quotes, Real, Realities, Reality, Refuse, Refuse to Face Them, Refused, Refuses, Refusing, Richard, Richard Henry Sellers, Richard Sellers, Sellers, Some, Subject, Subjects, Them, Trap, Trapped, Unless, Unsuitable Unsuited
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“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat”. –Peter Sellers

John Lennon

March 16, 2010 – 1:52 pm
Posted in Actors, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Comedians, Leaders, Musicians, Philosophers, Producers, The Beatles
Tagged About, About It, Are, Away, Beatles, Being, End, Ends, Express, Expressed, Expresses, Expressing, Expressing That, Insane, Insanity, It, John, John Lennon, John Ono Lennon, John Winston Lennon, John Winston Ono Lennon, Jon, Jon Lennon, Lennon, Liability, Liable, Maniac, Maniacal, Maniacal Ends, Maniacs, Ono, Put, Put Away, Quote, Quotes, Ran, Run, Running, Runs, That, The Beatles, Think, Though, We, We Are, Were, Winston
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“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Aphra Behn

March 15, 2010 – 10:19 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Poets, Roman Catholic Church
Tagged Afra, Afra Behn, Aphra, Aphra Behn, Behn, Eaffry, Eaffry Behn, Is, Like, No, Not, Quote, Quotes, Saint, Sainthood, Saintly, Saints, Sin, Sinned, Sinner, Sinning, There, There Is No Sinner Like A Young Saint, Young, Young Saint, Younger, Youngest
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“There is no sinner like a young saint”. –Aphra Behn

John Milton

March 15, 2010 – 3:36 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Christianity, Civil War, Philosophers, Poets, Politicians, Protestant Church, Theologians
Tagged Can, Free, Freedom, Good, Good Men, Heart, Heartily, Hearts, Hearty, John, John Milton, John Milton Quote, John Milton Quotes, License, Licensed, Licenses, Lost, Love, Loved, Loves, Loving, Man, Mans, Men, Mens, Milton, Milton Quote, Milton Quotes, None, None Can Love Freedom Heartily But Good Men, Paradise, Paradise Lost, Quote, Quotes, Rest, Rests, The Rest Love Not Freedom But License
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“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

Edward Heath

March 15, 2010 – 2:27 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Journalists, Leaders, Politicians, Presidents, WWII
Tagged Before, Diplomat, Diplomatic, Diplomats, Ed, Ed Heath, Edward, Edward Heath, George, Heath, Man, Mans, Men, Mens, Nothing, Quote, Quotes, Richard, Say, Says, Says Nothing, Sir, Sir Edward Heath, Sir Edward Richard George Heath, Ted, Ted Heath, Teddy, Teddy Heath, Think, Thinking, Thinks, Thinks Twice, Thought, Twice, Two
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“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

Charles Kingsley

March 14, 2010 – 11:24 pm
Posted in Anglican Church, Authors, British Empire, Christianity, Historians, Priests, Religion, Theologians
Tagged Bodily, Bodily Terror, Body, Charles, Charles Kingsley, Charles Kingsley Quote, Charles Kingsley Quotes, Charles Kingsly, Far, Far More, Far More Overwhelming, Feel, Feels, Free, Frees, Frees Us, From, In the Minds of Many, Kingsley, Kingsley Quote, Kingsley Quotes, Kingsly, Many, Many Ways, Mind, Minds, Minds of Many, Moral, Moral Terror, Morality, Morals, More, of Many, Overwhelm, Overwhelmed, Overwhelming, Quote, Quotes, Replace, Replaces, Savage, Savagery, Savages, Science, Science Frees Us In Many Ways, Scientist, Scientists, She, She Replaces That In The Minds Of Many By A Moral Terror Which Is Far More Overwhelming, Terror, Terrorist, Terrorize, Terrors, Us, Way, Ways, Which
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“Science frees us in many ways… from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming”. –Charles Kingsley

Morarji Desai

March 14, 2010 – 10:43 pm
Posted in Activists, British Empire, Civil War, Hinduism, Humanitarians, India, Indian Independence Movement, Leaders, Philanthropists, Politicians, Presidents, Revolutionaries
Tagged મોરારજી દેસાઈ, મોરારજી રણછોડજી દેસાઈ, Bad, Bad People, Compassion, Compassionate, Desai, Do, Do Not Say, Do Say, Find, Finding, Found, Full, Full of Compassion, Moraji, Moraji Desai, Morarji, Morarji Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, Not, Otherwise, People, Peoples, Person, Quote, Quotes, Ranchhodji, Say, Sometime, Sometimes, Sometimes Find, Vegan, Veganism, Vegans, Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Vegetarians, Very, Very Bad People, Who
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“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion, and one who is not is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people”. –Morarji Desai

George Orwell

March 14, 2010 – 10:43 am
Posted in Activists, Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Journalists, Military, Philosophers, WWII
Tagged Arthur, Between, Blair, Book, Books, Camp, Camps, Capitalism, Capitalist, Capitalists, Collectivism, Collectivization, Concentration, Concentration Camp, Concentration Camps, Dole, Dole Queues, Eric, Eric Arthur Blair, Eric Blair, George, George Orwell, Lead, Leader, Leader Worship, Leaders, Leads, Market, Markets, Orwell, Predicament, Present, Present Predicament, Queue, Queues, Quote, Quotes, Scramble, Sum, Sum Up, Them, These, They, Two, Two Books, Up, War, Wars, Worship
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“Between them, these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war”. –George Orwell

Jawaharlal Nehru

March 14, 2010 – 3:21 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Historians, India, Indian Independence Movement, Lawyers, Leaders, Philosophers, Politicians, Presidents, Revolutionaries
Tagged Act, Acting, Acts, Aggressive, Aggressor, Aggressor Nation, Aggressor Nations, Aggressors, जवाहरलाल नेहरू, Claim, Claims, Defense, Defensive, Every, Habit, Habits, Habitual, Jawaharlal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nation, National, Nations, Nehru, Pandit, Pandit Nehru, Panditji, Quote, Quotes, Self-Defense
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“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive”. –Jawaharlal Nehru

Sid Vicious

March 13, 2010 – 7:51 am
Posted in Artists, British Empire, Musicians
Tagged 25, Death, Die, John, Life, Live, Lived, Pistols, Probably, Probably Die, Quote, Quotes, Ritchie, Sex, Sex Pistols, Sid, Sid Vicious, Simon, Simon John Ritchie, Simon Ritchie, The Sex Pistols, Twenty-Five, Twentyfive, Vicious, Want, Wanted, Way
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“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

G.K. Chesterton

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance”. –G.K. Chesterton

William Cowper

March 12, 2010 – 9:40 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Musicians, Poets, Religion
Tagged Caesar, Caesars, Cæsar, Cæsars, Cowper, Cowper Quote, Cowper Quotes, Eagle, Eagles, Flew, Invincibility, Invincible, Knew, Never, Never Flew, Never Knew, None, None As Invincible As They, Posterity, Quote, Quotes, Region, Regions, Regions Caesar Never Knew, Regions Caesar Never Knew Thy Posterity Shall Sway, Shall, Sway, They, Thy, Thy Posterity, Thy Posterity Shall Sway, Where, Where His Eagles Never Flew, Where His Eagles Never Flew None As Invincible As They, William, William Cowper, William Cowper Quote, William Cowper Quotes
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“Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they”. –William Cowper

Oscar Wilde

March 12, 2010 – 10:46 am
Posted in Activists, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Ireland, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged Because, Death, Die, Dies, Fingal, For, Man, Men, Necessarily, Necessary, Not, O'Flahertie, Oscar, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Quote, Quotes, Thing, Things, True, Truth, Wilde, Willis
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

Albert Meltzer

March 12, 2010 – 12:55 am
Posted in Activists, Authors, British Empire, Editors, Journalists
Tagged Albert, Albert Meltzer, Defeat, Defeated, Hope, Inevitable, Inevitably, Last, Last Hope, Meltzer, Optimism, Optimist, Optimists, Quote, Quotes
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“Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated”. –Albert Meltzer

Ian Fleming

March 11, 2010 – 10:04 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Journalists, Leaders, Military, WWII
Tagged Bond, Can, Fleming, Ian, Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming, James, James Bond, Lancaster, Light, Light Switch, Men, Men Want a Woman, Off, On, Quote, Quotes, Switch, They, Turn, Turn Off, Turn Off and On, Turn On, Turn On and Off, Turn On and Off Like a Light Switch, Want, Who, Whom, Woman
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“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

Bruce Lee

March 11, 2010 – 9:01 am
Posted in Actors, America, Artists, Athletes, Authors, British Empire, Directors, Inventors, Philosophers, Producers
Tagged Any, Bruce, Bruce Lee, Can, Fan, Find, Find It, Finds, Found, From, Jun, Lǐ, Lǐ Xiăolóng, Lǐ Zhènfān, Lee, Lee Jun Fan, Li, Li Xiaolong, Only, Place, Places, Quote, Quotes, Take, Take It, That, Use, Used, Uses, Which, Work, Worked, Working, Works, Xiăolóng, Zhènfān, 李小龍, 李振藩
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“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it”. –Bruce Lee

Holbrook Jackson

March 10, 2010 – 1:44 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Editors, Journalists
Tagged Coward, Cowardice, Cowards, Far, George, George Holbrook Jackson, George Jackson, Has, Holbrook, Holbrook Jackson, Jackson, Limit, Limits, Patience, Patience Has Its Limits, Patient, Quote, Quotes, Take, Too, Too Far
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“Patience has its limits; take it too far and it’s cowardice”. –Holbrook Jackson

Neville Chamberlain

March 10, 2010 – 11:53 am
Posted in British Empire, Leaders, Military, Politicians, Presidents, WWI, WWII
Tagged Anti, Anti-Semite, Anti-Semitic, Anti-Semitism, Care, Chamberlain, Doubt, Explain, Jew, Jewish, Jewish People, Jews, Kristallnacht, Lovable, Love, Myself, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Neville, Neville Chamberlain, No, No Doubt, Not, Not Sufficient, People, Peoples, Person, Pogrom, Pogromnacht, Pogroms, Quote, Quotes, Semite, Semites, Semitic, Sufficient
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“No doubt the Jews aren’t a lovable people; I don’t care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom”. –Neville Chamberlain

Oliver Goldsmith

March 9, 2010 – 10:17 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Ireland, Physicians, Poets
Tagged Again, Another, Away, Battle, Can, Day, Fight, Fight Another Day, Fights, For, Goldsmith, He, Live, Live to Fight Another Day, May, Never, Oliver, Oliver Goldsmith, Quote, Quotes, Rise, Run, Run Away, Runs, Runs Away, Slain, Slay
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“For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and fight again”. –Oliver Goldsmith

Aneurin Bevan

March 7, 2010 – 11:36 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Leaders, Politicians, WWII
Tagged Aneurin, Aneurin Bevan, Aneurin Nye Bevan, Bevan, Death, Each, Each Other, Expensive, Million, Millions, Not, Not Prudent, Nye, Nye Bevan, Other, People, Prudent, Quote, Quotes, Soon, Starve, Starve to Death, Starving, Television, Television Sets, Televisions, TV, TV sets, Watch, Watching
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“Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets”. –Aneurin Bevan

Lord Mountbatten

March 7, 2010 – 10:20 pm
Posted in British Empire, Generals, German Empire, India, Leaders, Military, Politicians, Royalty, WWII
Tagged 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Afraid, Battenberg, Burma, Children, Do Not, Don't, Earl, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Father, Lord, Lord Mountbatten, Louis, Louis Mountbatten, Mountbatten, Mountbatten of Burma, My Children, Prince, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Quote, Quotes, See, Should Not, Shouldn't, Why
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“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don’t see why my children shouldn’t be afraid of me”. –Lord Mountbatten

Alexander Pope

March 7, 2010 – 4:42 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Poets
Tagged Alexander, Alexander Pope, Dog, Dogs, Example, Examples, Fidelity, Friend, Friends, Full, Histories, History, More, Pope, Quote, Quotes
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“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends”. –Alexander Pope

Edward Coke

March 7, 2010 – 2:13 am
Posted in British Empire, Entrepreneurs, Lawyers, Politicians
Tagged Abound, Coke, Day, Days, Deceit, Edward, Edward Coke, Former, Former Times, Fraud, More, More Than, Quote, Quotes, Sir, Sir Edward Coke, Than, These Days, Times
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“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times”. –Edward Coke

Adam Smith

March 6, 2010 – 9:18 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Economists, Philosophers
Tagged Adam, Adam Smith, Difficult, Difficulty, Easier, Easy, Fast, Generally, Great, Have, Little, Make, Makes, Money, More, Proverb, Quote, Quotes, Small, Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Wealth of Nations
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“Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little”. –Adam Smith

Alec Issigonis

March 5, 2010 – 10:00 pm
Posted in British Empire, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, Ottoman Empire
Tagged Alec, Alec Issigonis, Alexander, Alexander Issigonis, Can't, Cannot, Expert, Issigonis, Άλεκ Ισσιγόνης, Quote, Quotes, Someone, Something, Tell, Tells, Why
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“An expert is someone who tells you why you can’t do something”. –Alec Issigonis

Peter Tosh

March 5, 2010 – 6:20 pm
Posted in Artists, British Empire, Jamaica, Musicians, Performers, Rastafari Movement
Tagged Bob Marley and the Wailers, Die, Everybody, Heaven, McIntosh, Nobody, Peter, Peter McIntosh, Peter Tosh, Quote, Quotes, The Wailers, Tosh, Wailers, Want, Wants, Winston, Winston McIntosh
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“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die”. –Peter Tosh

Duke of Wellington

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained”. –Duke of Wellington

John Pearson

March 4, 2010 – 11:19 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Christianity, Civil War, Priests, Roman Catholic Church, Theologians
Tagged Change, Condition, Death, Else, Eternal, Eternal Condition, John, John Pearson, John Pearson Quote, John Pearson Quotes, Nothing, Pearson, Pearson Quote, Pearson Quotes, Quote, Quotes, Short, Temporary, Unalterable
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“Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition”. –John Pearson

Rudyard Kipling

March 4, 2010 – 2:00 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, India, Journalists, Poets, The Jungle Book, WWI
Tagged Book, Break, Break It, Die, Jungle, Jungle Book, Keep, Kipling, Law, Law of the Jungle, Must, Now, Old, Prosper, Quote, Quotes, Rudyard, Rudyard Kipling, Sky, The Jungle Book, True, Wolf
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“Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die”. –Rudyard Kipling

Subhas Chandra Bose

March 4, 2010 – 12:48 pm
Posted in Activists, British Empire, Civil War, Founding Fathers, Generals, Hinduism, India, Indian Independence Movement, Leaders, Military, Politicians, Presidents, Revolutionaries
Tagged Absolute, Absolute Truth, सुभाषचंद्र बोस, सुभाषचन्द्र बोस, सुभास चन्द्र बोस, સુભાષચંદ્ર બોઝ, Big, Bose, Build, Cannot, Chandra, Comprehend, Contain, Contains, Frail, Fully, Fully Comprehend, Life, Maximum, Maximum Truth, Netaji, Nevertheless, Quote, Quotes, Reality, Shubashchondro Boshu, Sit, Sit Still, Still, Subhas, Subhas Chandra Bose, Theory, Too, Too Big, Truth, Understand, Understanding
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“Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth”. –Subhas Chandra Bose

Ernest Rutherford

March 3, 2010 – 10:47 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Chemists, Physicists, Scientists
Tagged 1st, 1st Baron, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, Baron, Bartender, Can't, Can't Explain, Damn, Ernest, Ernest Rutherford, Explain, Good, Nelson, No, No Damn Good, Probably, Quote, Quotes, Rutherford, Theory
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“A theory you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good”. –Ernest Rutherford

Walter Scott

March 3, 2010 – 3:56 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Historians, Poets
Tagged Deserve, Deserves, Deserves Praise, Do, Do Evil, Does, Does Good, Evil, Forbear, Forbears, Good, Ivanhoe, Perform, Performs, Power, Praise, Quote, Quotes, Scott, Sir, Sir Walter Scott, Unlimited, Unlimited Power, Walter, Walter Scott
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“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears”. –Walter Scott

John Keats

March 3, 2010 – 11:17 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Poets
Tagged Become, Becomes, Ever, Experience, Experienced, Illustrate, Illustrated, John, John Keats, Keats, Life, Nothing, Proverb, Quote, Quotes, Real
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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it”. — John Keats

Aleister Crowley

March 2, 2010 – 2:41 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Magicians, Priests, Religion
Tagged Alastair, Alastair Crowley, Aleister, Aleister Crowley, Analyze, Beast, Beat, Cease, Ceases, Clearly, Crowley, Define, Define Him, Enemy, Enormous, Evil, Exist, Formlessness, Frater, Frater Perdurabo, Grasp, Grasped, Great, Him, Intelligent, Intelligently, Measure, Menacing, Mind, Obsess, Obsesses, Overshadow, Overshadowing, Perdurabo, Pious, Pretense, Quote, Quotes, Terror, Terrors, The Great Beast, Threat, Threaten, Unknown, Vague
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“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an enemy is to define him clearly, to analyze and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown”. –Aleister Crowley

Thomas More

March 1, 2010 – 11:22 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Lawyers, Philosophers, Politicians, Roman Catholic Church, Saints
Tagged Advice, Advises, Ask, More, Quote, Quotes, Reverse, Saint, Saint Thomas More, Sir, Sir Thomas More, Sure, Thomas, Thomas More, Very, Whatever, Wise, Woman, Woman's, Woman's Advice
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“Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise”. –Thomas More

Lord Byron

March 1, 2010 – 2:58 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Leaders, Poets, Politicians
Tagged 6th, 6th Baron Byron, Baron, Byron, Celebrity, Doesn't, Doesn't Know, George, George Byron, George Gordon Byron, George Gordon Noel, Glad, Gordon, Known, Lord, Lord Byron, Many, Many Persons, Noel, Persons, Quote, Quotes, Sixth Baron Byron
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“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know”. –Lord Byron

John Maynard Keynes

February 27, 2010 – 6:33 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Economists, WWI, WWII
Tagged 1st Baron Keynes, Affair, Affairs, Current, Current Affairs, Dead, Guide, John, John Keynes, John Maynard Keynes, Keynes, Keynesian, Keynesian Theory, Long, Long Run, Maynard, Mislead, Misleading, Quote, Quotes, Run
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“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead”. –John Maynard Keynes

Oliver Reed

February 26, 2010 – 8:10 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Performers
Tagged Ambition, Ambitions, Drink, Dry, Earth, Every, Have, Life, Oliver, Oliver Reed, One, Other, Pub, Quote, Quotes, Reed, Sleep, Two, Woman
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“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on Earth”. –Oliver Reed

Thomas Jefferson

February 26, 2010 – 6:57 pm
Posted in America, Archaeologists, Architects, Authors, British Empire, Founding Fathers, Inventors, Lawyers, Leaders, Philanthropists, Philosophers, Politicians, Presidents, Revolutionaries, Vice Presidents
Tagged 49, 51, Away, Democracy, Fifty-One, Fifty-One Percent, Forty-Nine, Jefferson, Mob, Mob Rule, More, Nothing, Nothing More, People, Percent, Quote, Quotes, Right, Rights, Rule, Take, Take Away, Thomas, Thomas Jefferson, Tom, Tom Jefferson
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“A democracy is nothing more than mob-rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”. –Thomas Jefferson

George Canning

February 26, 2010 – 3:17 pm
Posted in British Empire, Leaders, Politicians, Presidents
Tagged Alone, Canning, Country, Every, Every Country, Friend, George, George Canning, His Own, Own, Patriot, Quote, Quotes, World
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“A patriot of the world alone; The friend of every country but his own”. –George Canning

Richard Burton

February 26, 2010 – 3:00 am
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Tagged Anything, Burton, Convince, Convinced, Himself, I, Man, More, Never, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Religions, Richard, Richard Burton, Study, Worship, Worshipped
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“The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself”. –Richard Burton

Samuel Butler

February 25, 2010 – 5:02 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Historians
Tagged Alter, Butler, Can, Can Not, Cannot, God, God's, Historian, Historians, History, Past, Quote, Quotes, Sam, Sam Butler, Samuel, Samuel Butler
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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can”. –Samuel Butler

King Henry IV

February 25, 2010 – 1:50 pm
Posted in British Empire, Generals, Leaders, Military, Royalty
Tagged Arrive, Arriving, Bolingbroke, England, Henry, Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV, Henry of Bolingbroke, IV, King, King Henry IV, King Henry IV of England, Knowledge, Lesson, Lessons, Mount, Nobody, Nobody's Word, of England, Principle, Principles, Quote, Quotes, Real, Real Knowledge, Shortest, Sure, Sure Way, Surest, Surest Way, Take Nobody's Word, Taught, Unlearn, Way
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“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them”. –King Henry IV

Charlie Chaplin

February 25, 2010 – 11:34 am
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Directors
Tagged Acting, Actor, Actors, Chaplin, Chaplin Quote, Chaplin Quotes, Charles, Charles Chaplin, Charles Chaplin Quote, Charles Chaplin Quotes, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Charlie, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin Quote, Charlie Chaplin Quotes, Cinema, Cinemas, Comedian, Comedians, Comedy, Dictator, Dictators, Dictators Free Themselves, Dictators Free Themselves But Enslave The People, Enslave, Enslave The People, Enslaved, Enslavement, Enslaves, Enslaving, Film, Films, Free, People, Peoples, Person, Quote, Quotes, Slave, Slaved, Slavery, Slaves, Slaving, Spencer, The People, Themselves
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“Dictators free themselves, but enslave the people”. –Charlie Chaplin

Queen Elizabeth I

February 24, 2010 – 9:19 am
Posted in British Empire, Leaders, Royalty
Tagged Appear, Elizabeth, Elizabeth I, I, Most, Queen, Queen Elizabeth I, Quote, Quotes, Sanctified, Worst
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“Those who appear most sanctified are the worst”. –Queen Elizabeth I

Bertrand Russell

February 22, 2010 – 5:16 pm
Posted in Activists, Authors, British Empire, Historians, Mathematicians, Philosophers, Scientists
Tagged Bert, Bert Russell, Bertrand, Bertrand Russell, Determine, Left, Quote, Quotes, Right, Russell, War
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“War does not determine who is right – only who is left”. –Bertrand Russell

James Madison

February 22, 2010 – 9:25 am
Posted in America, Authors, British Empire, Founding Fathers, Lawyers, Leaders, Philosophers, Presidents, Revolutionaries
Tagged Enemy, Fighting, Foreign, Foreign Enemy, Founding Father, Founding Fathers, Guise, James, James Madison, Land, Madison, Oppression, President, Presidents, Quote, Quotes, Tyranny
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“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”. –James Madison

Florence Nightingale

February 22, 2010 – 12:36 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Humanitarians
Tagged Florence, Florence Nightingale, In Vain, Lazy, Martyr, Narrow, Narrower, Nightingale, Quote, Quotes, Sacrifice, Sacrifices, Selfish, Vain
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“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower”. –Florence Nightingale

J.R.R. Tolkien

February 21, 2010 – 3:14 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Lord of the Rings, Military, Poets
Tagged Arrow, Bright Sword, Defend, Glory, J.R.R., J.R.R. Tolkien, JRR, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Love, Quote, Quotes, Sharpness, Swiftness, Sword, Tolkien, Warrior
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“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”. –J.R.R. Tolkien

Oliver Cromwell

February 20, 2010 – 11:19 pm
Posted in British Empire, Civil War, Generals, Leaders, Military, Politicians
Tagged Cheering, Cromwell, Hang, Hanged, Hanging, Oliver, Oliver Cromwell, Person, Persons, Quote, Quotes, Shout, Trust
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“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you, or I, were going to be hanged”. –Oliver Cromwell

Aldous Huxley

February 20, 2010 – 12:29 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Editors
Tagged Aldous, Aldous Huxley, Bureaucracy, Country, Democracy, Democratic, Governed, Huxley, Modern, Modern War, Obedient, Prepared, Quote, Quotes, Scientific, Scientific War, Trained, Tyrant, War
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“A democracy which makes, or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy”. –Aldous Huxley

John Adams

February 19, 2010 – 9:35 pm
Posted in America, British Empire, Founding Fathers, Lawyers, Politicians, Presidents, Revolutionaries, Vice Presidents
Tagged Adams, Aristocracy, Bloody, Commit Suicide, Democracy, Exhausts, John, John Adams, Lasts, Monarchy, Murders, Quote, Quotes, Remember, Suicide, Wastes
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“Democracy, while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide”. –John Adams