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We don't wait until there's a rash of injuries. We hit it before it becomes a bigger issue.


Jim Lord

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NEIL GAIMAN People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
FRENCH PROVERB Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We would prefer to wait until the 30-year becomes a more liquid and larger market and establishes it...
CHIKAHISA SUMI you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can...
NED VIZZINI We think it will be June of 2007. Lindsay will be student teaching this spring, and we want to wait ...
CHAD STEWART If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
LEE STRASBERG If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We want to head it off before it becomes a plan.
JANET MARTIN Even before we know the precise results of the analyses (on the products seized), it was better to a...
NICOLAS SARKOZY There's probably a domino effect from higher fuel prices. We probably will have to wait until we are...
BRUCE BARNETT We tend to make a bigger issue out of opening day.
JEFF CIRILLO We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN We are tired of it. We are going to make this a front-burner issue until we see some results,
HENRY BONILLA Can we really afford to wait until 2009 before we go ahead and transfer this spectrum?
JOHN MCCAIN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We will have to wait until he is fully checked out before we can determine the extent of the injury.
MARK MCCALL We had to wait until the play went to the other end and [assistant coach] Jim Trent walked on the fl...
FRED SKROCKI It just becomes a bigger out-of-pocket cost for them.
LINDA AUSTIN I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,...
EMORY R. FRIE If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ...
JOHN GREEN We had a rash of injuries at the center position last season - we went through seven of them. When w...
SPARKY MCEWEN Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW That game typified a season that was extremely disappointing. We started off with high expectations,...
SKIP ORR We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. ...
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI It wasn't anything to be alarmed about. Just more of a precaution to make sure we get it all calmed ...
WAYNE KRIVSKY Depth is kind of an issue. I just hope we have no more injuries.
JOSH SIBLEY It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.
JOE SINSHEIMER From the beginning of the year, we knew we were a good team. I guess we decided to wait until the en...
BILL RASMUSSEN When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN It was a long bus ride and then we get here and have to wait almost two hours before we can shoot. I...
RYAN CREIGHTON The second quarter was definitely the difference. We had a rash of turnovers, and they weren't even ...
CHRIS KEMPF Sooner or later, it becomes a property tax issue.
FRED TILMAN - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving ...
BONNIE DEE Hurling the box released some of his anger. It felt good so he swept his arm across the top of his d...
BONNIE DEE There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH After the the storm, I remain hopeful. Because no matter how hard the rain might be, I know the sun ...
PHILIP T. M. We took a big hit canker-wise. The bigger hit will be not being able to replant because of the nurse...
JEFF BASS We wait until all the kittens are adopted before we bring in new ones. The reason why we do this is ...
JACK REIF God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We really only had three weeks after Katrina hit to get it all together. It was a hustle, and a few ...
ANNA SIMPSON Sin has a bottomless mouth, the more you feed it the bigger it becomes.
SUSIE L HILL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Failure is not the final fall.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The bigger issue is that we have a site available and we have a need to fill for our residents.
FULTON MEACHEM We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we'r...
PHIL LESH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I didn't feel we could wait any longer since we had a soft cut date set, ... And it didn't start wor...
JENNIFER BROWN We told them we would wait until we knew where the money came from and whose it really was.
CAMERON HOLMES Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you.
SARVESH Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you.
-SARVESH If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It looks more likely that we might wait until the worst part of the winter is over.
BRENT MILLER As We Say Life Is A Mystery,Then Dont Chase It,Just Live It.
KIM CHOWDHURY Some LTL companies wait until they have a full load before dispatching a truck. If we don't have a f...
DOUGLAS DUNCAN It?s a presence we never had before. It?s comforting, I guess, knowing we can match up with other te...
CASEY TODD I think we need not wait until a child needs an amputation, passes out at school and has other facto...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN GARCIA Despite the fact we've had a rash of injuries and some conflicts with clubs, we feel this game is an...
BRUCE ARENA Life is all about what's happening now, dont wait for tomorrow- Keep it simple - MB
BHARATH MAMIDOJU If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.
GAYLORD PERRY A lot of times we don't get home until 3 a.m., if we've got a bigger band.
DARLENE KLIMENT If we cannot help ourselves in small ways,then unemployment becomes a big issue.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We are very short staffed. This makes wait times hard to predict. People can wait anywhere from five...
ALAIDA LARES Dont lose sight of your goal, no matter what. The bigger the obstacle, the bigger the telescope.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM If you wait until it freezes before turning on irrigation, the water will freeze in the lines.
BARBARA CARLTON Our butcher tried to put one on two weeks ago. I just told him that we're not ready to pay that and ...
JOSEPH ROCCO Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul...
DAVE PELZER It is a very big surprise, but like Maxim says it is just the compulsory dance. We will have to wait...
ALBENA DENKOVA Rather, (we) ask healthy adults and others not included in the groups targeted for shots at the firs...
CHERRY LONEY I promise you, everybody made a much bigger deal about it than we did. We weren't really that concer...
GRANT WISTROM Everything we put our attention on becomes more, bigger, and brighter.
TONY BURROUGHS We want to start the kids young so it becomes a habit. We want to get everyone together and take car...
KAY GRAYBILL I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just h...
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON We were going to do it before the hurricane, but decided to wait,
JACKIE MASON We should wait patiently until tomorrow.
ALEXANDER ALEXEYEV We can't wait until April 3.
JEFF COGEN Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our day...
ANN VOSKAMP We anticipate a rash of relationship announcements over the next three months.
SRIVATS SAMPATH Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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JIM LORD Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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.
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LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
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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 That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE 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 Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE 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 A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
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 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 It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE 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 Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE 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.
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SHIRLEY LORD 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...
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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 I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE 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 You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE 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 The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE 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 If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE 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 The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD