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While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.


Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of Carlisle

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While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear...
CARLISLE FLOYD There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
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CARLISLE FLOYD I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also devel...
CARLISLE FLOYD Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
CARLISLE FLOYD If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
CARLISLE FLOYD I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca...
CARLISLE FLOYD America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable positio...
CARLISLE FLOYD It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the y...
CARLISLE FLOYD There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomf...
CARLISLE FLOYD The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value it...
CARLISLE FLOYD Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it conta...
CARLISLE FLOYD If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say ...
CARLISLE FLOYD It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
CARLISLE FLOYD Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out...
CARLISLE FLOYD The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has...
CARLISLE FLOYD Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p...
CARLISLE FLOYD We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce...
CARLISLE FLOYD People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in...
CARLISLE FLOYD Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv...
CARLISLE FLOYD If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically...
CARLISLE FLOYD I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.
BELINDA CARLISLE What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat...
CARLISLE FLOYD This was without question the best tournament I have ever been to. It was tremendously well-run, and...
BUDDY CARLISLE I know his left foot didn't leave the floor.
BUDDY CARLISLE We were able to force a lot of turnovers, especially in the second and third quarters. We had some e...
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BUDDY CARLISLE Lance is a competitor and he can shoot, that's a pretty good combination. Lance is just one of those...
BUDDY CARLISLE I was proud of the way we hung in there and came back after we withstood their opening salvo. We kin...
BUDDY CARLISLE It's helps to have smart kids. That does carry over to basketball.
BUDDY CARLISLE We had a tremendous third quarter. In fact, we put together an 18-point run after falling behind 34-...
BUDDY CARLISLE We made a great comeback to get within one at the half. We felt good going into the third and got of...
BUDDY CARLISLE The last time you interviewed me, I sat in that chair and we lost.
BILLY CARLISLE We didn't make many mistakes defensively the first half. It paid off having that big cushion. We got...
BILLY CARLISLE We contributed by giving them open shots.
BILLY CARLISLE First time over there we didn't get any (offensive rebounds). We got like two offensive rebounds the...
BILLY CARLISLE Seeing Forest Brook play, we realized we needed to beat their press. We handled their press well and...
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KITTY CARLISLE I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
BELINDA CARLISLE I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the his...
CARLISLE FLOYD I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a grea...
CARLISLE FLOYD I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also develop...
CARLISLE FLOYD I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ...
CARLISLE FLOYD America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vi...
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RICK CARLISLE Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
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CHRIS CARLISLE We're really rolling up our sleeves and getting into it. We have two houses to support now.
ALISON CARLISLE Last year we raised over $100,000.
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RICK CARLISLE Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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CHRIS CARLISLE The best way to get your message out is word of mouth. The most important thing is to have (viewers)...
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RICK CARLISLE If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out ...
RUTH CARLISLE They are not the same team without Vince Carter.
RICK CARLISLE I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
KITTY CARLISLE It's baseball. You can't expect the umpires to get them all right. But I don't blame them. If I coac...
DANNY CARLISLE It got hairy at the end, but it's going to be hairy at times. You've just got to be able to find a w...
RICK CARLISLE He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His v...
RICK CARLISLE I look at Chatham and Moncton, I'm a little wary of them too. They beat us 11-9 down there and they ...
CHRIS CARLISLE We're confident, but also a little wary,
CHRIS CARLISLE We set it up a little differently. AJ (Johnson) had been going good and we figured that they react t...
RICK CARLISLE It's not believed to be serious, but we're not sure yet. It was bad enough to where there was swelli...
RICK CARLISLE Sounds like I’m the man of your dreams…
LISA CARLISLE It's a deceptive final score. It was obviously a very difficult game. It's not easy against a team l...
RICK CARLISLE In the second half, his disposition was different at both ends. He made great decisions, he played u...
RICK CARLISLE Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate r...
JOHN CARLISLE That was my idea, I didn't want that joker to get hit in the face. He had a lot of plastic surgery.
DANNY CARLISLE It's been tough for Fred this year because of the thumb; he's been in and out of it. He played great...
RICK CARLISLE A.J.'s the starter for now. We'll see how the next couple of weeks unfold. We were in this same situ...
RICK CARLISLE Our undoing was the first quarter. We allowed them to shoot 77 percent and that got them going. That...
RICK CARLISLE He could be very cordial and charming when he was cooperating with you, and there were other times h...
PETER CARLISLE They had a past together. Did it rule out a future?
LISA CARLISLE I don't consider myself a cancer survivor because I never became a victim.
CHRIS CARLISLE Our catcher, Wade Spurlock, had a good night at the plate. Austin Sharp and Jonathan Wray stepped up...
DANNY CARLISLE We stepped up, swung the bat extremely well, hit the ball and put pressure on people. (Webb) got in ...
DANNY CARLISLE In his prime he was a very imposing figure with a very large tattoo of a shark on his forearm that h...
PETER CARLISLE I'm just hoping that when he wakes up he isn't feeling too bad because he's the cornerstone of our t...
RICK CARLISLE The guy's at the top of his game. It's a rare opportunity to see a guy perform at this level.
RICK CARLISLE We hung in, competed, and had chances. We created a lot of good looks for ourselves, but weren't abl...
RICK CARLISLE We're going up against a guy who's playing a superhuman brand of basketball. He's looked invincible.
RICK CARLISLE We had one of the best practices we've had in the 21/2 years I've been here. Guys really seemed comm...
RICK CARLISLE Michael Redd was a guy we talked a lot of about before the game. (Jackson) did a good job at the sta...
RICK CARLISLE There's no doubt right now that (Jackson) is our main guy. He's going to make some things happen for...
RICK CARLISLE You've got to have character to bounce back from a disappointing night like last night. You've got t...
RICK CARLISLE Our foul trouble made it tough. (Bryant) gets you into foul trouble, and double-teams get other peop...
RICK CARLISLE He's a guy who can score the ball, yet I don't see him referred to a lot as a big scorer. He's a win...
RICK CARLISLE He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player. He's been here the last two summers working ou...
RICK CARLISLE It's just shocking. We were supposed to have a big family dinner. Instead we're just trying to cope.
BUDDY CARLISLE He's two-for-two now. I think his leadership and being able to get off to an early start like that h...
CHRIS CARLISLE It's one of the most phenomenal things I've ever seen, and I coached basketball 26 years at Otterbei...
CHRIS CARLISLE Anytime you win when you're not playing your best, it's the mark of a good team.
CHRIS CARLISLE Early in the season, I went and printed off the state field from last year and told the guys we'd be...
CHRIS CARLISLE I told them, 'You know what? I'm wrong. I've thought all year we were good enough to go to state. I ...
CHRIS CARLISLE We run that (offense) sometimes, but we're going to be doing it more, obviously, when he and ( Steph...
RICK CARLISLE The state's Transportation Improvement Plan had an amendment to it. What it means is, the intersecti...
JOHN CARLISLE We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines w...
CARLISLE FLOYD The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provi...
KATE CARLISLE He had made a vow to defend his country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
He’d neve...
LISA CARLISLE The more you miss something, the greater the appeal.
LISA CARLISLE Her eyelids lowered, and her irises darkened a shade, flickering with unmistakable desire. “All I ...
LISA CARLISLE I just liked the idea of being engaged.
BELINDA CARLISLE I had no musical training at all.
BELINDA CARLISLE It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
BELINDA CARLISLE You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
BELINDA CARLISLE However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and go...
BELINDA CARLISLE He was an excellent trial lawyer, loved criminal practice and pretty much tried to concentrate on th...
MARSHALL CARLISLE He was a good people reader, and Murphy was smart. He knew the tricks of the trade.
MARSHALL CARLISLE You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, yo...
CARLISLE FLOYD The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put t...
CARLISLE FLOYD It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more...
CARLISLE FLOYD Morale had held quite steady until this year.
KAREN CARLISLE Low morale plus low loyalty equals high turnover. That can hobble a company.
KAREN CARLISLE Some of the items were still in dry cleaning bags. The AJ community was especially generous. I could...
KITTY CARLISLE A lot of these athletes, their objective is to sustain their quest for the next Olympics, not having...
PETER CARLISLE The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
KITTY CARLISLE A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it i...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
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,
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, ...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, ...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the w...
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.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on, Who never said a foolish...
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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WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting da...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON His withered fist still knocking at Death's door.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET His drink, the running stream; his cup, the bare / Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard, cold groun...
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET So, in this way of writing without thinking,/ Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
NOVALIS (PSEUDONYM OF FREDERICK VON HARDENBURG) After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make the...
JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE If there are trust issues during the dating period, marriage is not going to solve it! #Tip
A.H. CARLISLE III Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the leng...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD