He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.


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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
A. P. HERBERT
I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
A. P. HERBERT
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
A. P. HERBERT
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A. P. HERBERT
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act ...
A. P. HERBERT
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn...
A. P. HERBERT
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A. P. HERBERT
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.".
A. P. HERBERT
Success is in the details.
A P ERKKILA
There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he ha...
A. P. GOUTHEY
The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
A. P. GOUTHEY
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. GOUTHEY
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of ...
A. P. HERBERT
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
A. P. HERBERT
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. GOUTHEY
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
A. P. HERBERT
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected..
A. P. HERBERT
Other people's babies - / That's my life! / Mother to dozens, / And nobody's wife.
A. P. HERBERT
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, / For mother will be there.
A. P. HERBERT
There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has...
A. P. GOUTHEY
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.
A. P. GOUTHEY
Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as def...
A. P. GOUTHEY
All noble human endeavors can and will be subtly corrupted until they are at cross purposes to their...
P. A. MONSON
Some people do not know how to fly above the morass. It does not take substances or ritual, nor geni...
P. A. MONSON
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, ...
A. P. HERBERT
If a tower is built too thick and high, the weight of it will crush the very foundation beneath it a...
P. A. MONSON
Forgiveness doesn't always imply a fault in the other person, but a fault in oneself, instead....for...
P. A. MONSON
Fear shoves you from behind; love beckons you forward.
P. A. MONSON
When the Strident Voices of Dissent loudly rise up from the Wilderness of Mann, the High-Flying Feat...
P. A. MONSON
The culmination of heightened anticipation precipitates an accelerated decrement of bio-vitality.
P. A. MONSON
Fish who live in the shallows can't survive a drought.
P. A. MONSON
What is the world without wit? We should live to love, love to laugh, and laugh to live!
P. A. MONSON
There are four states of being for nature and human souls: Constructive, destructive, flourishing, a...
P. A. MONSON
Looking but not Seeing, Listening but not Hearing, Touching but not Feeling, Tasting but not Savorin...
P. A. MONSON
And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,Remember what it looks like on the telly.
A. P. HERBERT
To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as ...
A. P. GOUTHEV
Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
A. P. HERBERT
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any ...
A. P. HERBERT
Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
A. P. HERBERT
Physical expression and attitude have no age, language, or species barrier."
P. A. MONSON
The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough ...
P. A. SPEERS
#1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience!
P. A. SPEERS
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE
My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY
There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY