Sir David Low quote: "I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass."

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
SIR DAVID LOW

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. ...
DAVID LOW

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his read...
DAVID LOW

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
DAVID LOW

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the...
DAVID LOW

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
ALBERT LOW

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit,...
ALBERT LOW

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW

These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW

It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.
BRANDON LOW

He's very fast, and very strong. He almost has the same style as before, but technically he's a much...
BRANDON LOW

It's a huge relief. It's a fairy tale ending, it's everything I could ever ask for.
BRANDON LOW

After that takedown, the crowd got really loud and I felt it was my match from then on. I think that...
BRANDON LOW

It's nice to know that the Fed is taking (exotic home loans) seriously. It looks like (Greenspan's) ...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

It's nice to know that the Fed is taking (exotic home loans) seriously,
CHRISTOPHER LOW

It's hard to imagine anybody having the backbone that Greenspan brought to the job, the ability to w...
CHRIS LOW

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may no...
SETH LOW

The job market was lousy, now it's been upgraded to good,
CHRISTOPHER LOW

Retail sales are expected to be down, but worry about Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index ...
CHRIS LOW

The bottom line - despite the minus sign in front of the number, (payrolls) are a lot better than we...
CHRIS LOW

There is a good chance in the second half of next year, we see growth slow down fairly dramatically.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

The yield curve is a really powerful indicator. It always has been. The shape of the curve still mat...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

If they diversify from the U.S. dollar denominated assets, it would lower the value of the U.S. doll...
CHRIS LOW

You've got two choices when picking a Treasury Secretary -- either someone like Rubin, who understan...
CHRIS LOW

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

Any attempt to bypass the markets, remove market incentives and replace them with government incenti...
CHRIS LOW

oil had a measurable impact on prices paid before the storm (Hurricane Katrina). Given the fact that...
CHRIS LOW

Strong December durable goods and the upward revision to November show that perhaps there isn't enou...
CHRIS LOW

The trade deficit widened to a record in September, as expected. But it wasn't the oil story we were...
CHRIS LOW

We're talking about an entire huge city and several smaller surrounding cities that will be empty fo...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

It is difficult to make the case this index will continue to rise at a healthy clip.
CHRIS LOW

It appears the fear of temporary inflation pressures associated with disrupted energy supplies and r...
CHRIS LOW

You can see this clear, ongoing deterioration. And what's scary about this is it's still acceleratin...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

It [this report] is less inflationary than what we saw earlier this year. Bottom line, things are de...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

In today's market, everyone is a Fed-watcher. Hopefully we will not lose any transparency and will l...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

We had thought that transparency meant efficiency in the market... and that's not what happened. The...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

Housing is as strong as ever, and the mortgage business is as good as ever.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

Activities are beginning to pick up. Manufacturing has been the weakest part of the economy. The res...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

All in all, a much more bond-friendly, stock market-hostile report than expected.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

Home sales have remained surprisingly strong despite higher interest rates.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

One reason the 10-year note yield has risen so much this week is that investors are worried that the...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

These findings are consistent with an emerging literature on the beneficial impact of faith and spir...
CARISSA LOW

It is going to make economists slightly revise down first-quarter GDP, which they already did with t...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

It does look like the economy is losing steam. After two years of Fed tightening, it's simply gotten...
CHRIS LOW

Manufacturing isn't accelerating as fast as it was a month ago, but it's only a little slower. The r...
CHRIS LOW

He does not want a rapid break in bond prices to snuff out the jobs recovery before it has a chance ...
CHRIS LOW

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
SETH LOW

The rapidity with which this has emerged over the last two to three years is probably unprecedented....
DONALD LOW

We're assuming the worst, that there has been likely transmission to health care workers, that there...
DONALD LOW

It's been a rough day,
DONALD LOW

It would have put everyone's mind at ease very quickly and would have helped the investigation,
DONALD LOW

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one tes...
DONALD LOW

to see where it's failing.
DONALD LOW

The decline helps affirm cooling in the housing sector and is consistent with other broad-based data...
CHRISTOPHER LOW

There's a sense of urgency in construction. If builders have approval for a project, they're going t...
CHRIS LOW

Today, the first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds in (almost) five years is expected to go well.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

I would think that certainly some of the discretionary spending would drop. There will be those who ...
CHRIS LOW

With three negative reports in a row, it's ugly. What we are seeing is two things: it is the storms ...
CHRIS LOW

What's striking is how much it looks like the statement from the last three meetings.
CHRIS LOW

We suspect that if the economy remains as soft as it has been lately, the Fed may very well decide a...
CHRIS LOW

It's the same tone that he took in his testimony two weeks ago.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

There was some pent-up demand by skiers because it's been a pretty warm winter. They wanted to go wh...
CRAIG LOW

The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the he...
CHRIS LOW

These are abysmal numbers, suggesting a deeply pessimistic consumer in the first half of September.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

We found that faith and spirituality were the key factors. The women with a strong sense of faith ha...
CARISSA LOW

Our findings suggest that spirituality may be protective of physical health.
CARISSA LOW

There is no such thing as a good comb-over
CHARLES LOW

[At the center of the investigation is a patient who developed pneumonia April 22 and was treated in...
DONALD LOW

This test wasn't working, especially in this situation,
DONALD LOW

We feel confident that this is the source of the outbreak,
DONALD LOW

I guess in hindsight now, looking at the results we've seen with this outbreak? (I'm) not happy with...
DONALD LOW

We just need to go out and show him how much we've improved, and how much we've learned from him. Sh...
DERRICK LOW

We would score and bring the lead down, then all of a sudden they would hit a 3 or hit an easy shot.
DERRICK LOW

He, obviously, is the backbone of that team.
DERRICK LOW

We're entering the last third of the season with midseason conditions. I feel confident we'll get to...
CRAIG LOW

All the moons aligned properly for a great holiday period. It was one of our strongest weekends of t...
CRAIG LOW

The job market was lousy, now it's been upgraded to good.
CHRISTOPHER LOW

I'm thinking back on all the years we were here and all the fun things we did. The school has improv...
JANETTE LOW

I think the most important thing that happened to us the whole time we were here was more recent ...
JANETTE LOW

I remember in the late '60s and early '70s [we] couldn't wear pants to school. In the '60s, the mini...
JANETTE LOW

What is coming is better than what is gone - Suddenly Dirty Book 1 The Dirty Texas Series.
J.A. LOW

You're typically going to have an IT person, a Web marketing person, a copywriter, and a business ow...
JAMIE LOW

It's definitely something to be concerned about. Right now it's kind of the cost of doing business w...
JAMIE LOW

I had forgotten that, while Thor hurls his Hammer from storm-clouds, Odin prefers his strike to come...
ROBERT LOW

We want to be sure of his physical condition and to see how he has recovered from his serious knee i...
JOACHIM LOW

We have seen what great strengths he has. The coaches haven't really been thinking seriously about h...
JOACHIM LOW

We are shocked. It is tragic news for Sebastian.
JOACHIM LOW

We don't feel under pressure, we'll make our choice when the time is right.
JOACHIM LOW

This will be exactly the kind of test we need.
JOACHIM LOW

I think people are getting ahead of themselves. Right now it's just a (public relations) campaign.
JEFF LOW

Absolutely not. I'm not interested in going through that again.
JEFF LOW

It was a home of happiness and dreams, but now it's her sanctuary. Nine-eleven thoughts are just per...
MIKE LOW

The one swan doesn't mean it has arrived here.
SIR DAVID KING

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations an...
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout wi...
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between t...
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart an...
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its e...
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

I realize that each year it has changed and grown until I know that, a decade from now, what I might...
JULIETTE GORDON LOW

Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult.
SIR DAVID PARADINE FROST

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you woul...
SIR DAVID PARADINE FROST

Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM

There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR

There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR

It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD

The good news was that we’d found Santa. The bad news was that he was floating in a giant tube of ...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

Jesus shook his head slowly from side to side, then thrust his left hand deep into Santa’s sack. O...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

I was staring at one of the most famous images of Santa Claus of all time — one by Thomas Nast, fr...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

The crucified figure had not been idle. A series of elaborate twists activated a cunning mechanism; ...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

Every muscle in his body tensed for action, adrenalin pounding through his tiny veins, he crept down...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

She sighed and stepped out of the room, pulling the door shut behind her. Turning around, she nearly...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

The jolly old elf’s nose was red, but not from cold — rather, from the brutality of a dozen boxe...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a ru...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

And dozens of tiny hands reached up, and cast back dozens of tiny hoods. The robes fell away, reveal...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

Her eyes narrowed. “That is not the boy I raised.
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

Oh, this is not the time for us to get into that meshugenah debate again! Look, the point is that Je...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

There he was, skipping lightly across the surface of the water. He caught my eye and gave me that sh...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

I guess you could say I’ve got a monkey on my back. A monkey named Darwin.” He shrugged off the ...
PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW

Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH

Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry ...
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compel...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE

Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.

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I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.

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