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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.


Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.
ELIZABETH 1 Bill keeps them out of the hospitals, keeps them from isolating or committing suicide.
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Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
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Just for a moment, just see you,

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MARY ESSELMAN Pacific Built provides a valuable service. It would be a shame to see them go out of business.
DREW BRINER It keeps them from getting stir-crazy in the (indoor) cages.
JEFF ROBERTS Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of t...
JANE ADDAMS Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them o...
ELIZABETH GRAY VINING Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.
MARTYN HARRIS I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -...
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ELIZABETH VARGAS That's a big play. He keeps the ball from getting out of the infield and gives us a chance to get ou...
BRIAN STEWART You don't give yourself enough credit. Ignorance keeps you mean. Learning makes you kind.
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SUSAN SONTAG Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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KAY REDFIELD JAMISON It keeps me from getting lost.
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Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Empires are forged from the ignorance of men,A legacy is forged from the passion of a nation.
JAMES NEUFELD I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. ~You Know They've Got A Hell Of A Band in...
STEPHEN KING These young men are presumed innocent. These are scandalous political accusations that shame our nat...
ADAM HOUDA One of the building blocks of democracy is that you have to separate the governing party from the po...
DON MCKINNON An exciting part of our existence right now is [the prospect of] getting to go out and play from 28 ...
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BOB LOEVY They knew what they were getting into. I told them if they go into it with a positive attitude they ...
ED BAKER I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G.K. CHESTERTON Ignorance is a deadly parasite; the pursuit of enlightenment is the only cure.
REBEKAH CYPHERS Getting them exercise keeps them in shape.
LYLE JOHNSON Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The third time tap it really hard and it will go right into the wood.
JOE SABOL That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless n...
DAVE PAULI You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women woul...
PETER SCOTT And we're running out of people to play them. It's just a shame,
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COLIN CAMPBELL Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pension...
DAVID STRAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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BHAGAVAD GITA Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of w...
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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it ou...
WILL ROGERS I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
VICKY HARTZLER Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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BLAISE PASCAL You ever love someone to the point you hate them? 1st sign... time to go!
TAWANA BEECHAM I think it would be a shame if the process of compensation becomes political instead of scientific.
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CHANAKYA That's when they get the wood when it is just about to go rotten, and it makes that nice gray color.
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AMAR SINGH There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.
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BISHOP GILBERT BURNET I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON Fort Leonard Wood really keeps us hopping.
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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EDWARD F. HALIFAX Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolin...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
HALIFAX He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
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EARL OF STERLING I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A chapter of accidents.
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LORD HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
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WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Knowledge is power.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
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WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM The multitude is always in the wrong.
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WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
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JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing...
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
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THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE (OF ARABIA) Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
FREDERICK HOWARD, FIFTH EARL OF CARLISLE Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) There's not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life,
Is the best can be said for a very good wife.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) The only objection against the Bible is a bad life
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) There's not a thing on earth that I can name,So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Womankind more joy discovers, Making fools, than keeping lovers
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) And ever since the Conquest have been fools.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.The Difference lies, as far as I can see,Not in the t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Dead, we become the lumber of the world.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand,Lead him to death, and make him understand,After a search ...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Angels listen when she speaks:She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder;But my jealous heart would bre...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.
THOMAS COVENTRY, 1ST BARON COVENTRY Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
THOMAS COVENTRY, 1ST BARON COVENTRY The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, LORD HALIFAX The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
EARL NIGHTINGALE People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
EARL NIGHTINGALE You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've go...
EARL WEAVER Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
EARL WILSON People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I ...
EARL WEAVER Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to ...
EARL NIGHTINGALE Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bea...
EARL WARREN I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...
EARL WARREN He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
EARL WILSON Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
EARL WILSON An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
EARL WILSON If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
EARL WILSON Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we...
EARL WILSON The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
EARL WILSON Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
EARL WILSON This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt...
EARL WILSON Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
EARL WILSON Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
EARL WILSON Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER