A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne
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A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS An honest man is always a child.
SOCRATES Life is a re-discovery.
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GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult
BIBLE A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pa...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.
BIBLE A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything.
AMIT KALANTRI The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
ANATOLE FRANCE A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
ERASMUS DARWIN For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE Necessity makes an honest man a knave
DANIEL DEFOE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.
WALTER MALONE A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIèRE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
CONFUCIUS – and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try...
RICHARD FEYNMAN A fool who thinks that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man. The fool who thinks that he...
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JAMES D. WATSON He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good ...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
PROVERB An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.
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JAMES JOYCE To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
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WILLIAM PENN The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool
SYDNEY SMITH Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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TEKOA MANNING I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH an honest, straightforward man.
CHARLES WOLF A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKEN I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
RICHARD WHATELY Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
CRISS JAMI A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we li...
ROBERT JORDAN An honest God is the noblest work of man.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL An honest man is the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.
LIONEL SUGGS It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
BIBLE There is no doubt there is an appetite in Melbourne for a match of this stature.
GEOFF CARR Women love an honest man.
RITA ORA An honest exceeding poor man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A fool is only a fool when he doesn't know he's a fool. But if a fool knows he's a fool, then there ...
FATHOM Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresist...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
CONFUCIUS I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
GIACOMO CASANOVA When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
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CARTER CROCKER God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
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LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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LORD MELBOURNE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
LORD MELBOURNE Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre...
LORD MELBOURNE I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languag...
LORD MELBOURNE Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
LORD MELBOURNE God help the Minister that meddles with art!
LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
WILLIAM MELBOURNE It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
WILLIAM LAMB MELBOURNE It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy......
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LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ...
LORD HANSON Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
LORD BURLEIGH Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart...
LORD GREVILLE A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
LORD NELSON I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
LORD NELSON Business is more exciting than any game.
LORD BEAVERBROOK The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
LORD TRENT A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON