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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfi...
RT. HON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow...
MARGOT ASQUITH

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
MARGOT ASQUITH

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have ...
MARGOT ASQUITH

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free ...
MARGOT ASQUITH

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility...
MARGOT ASQUITH

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the grea...
MARGOT ASQUITH

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians a...
MARGOT ASQUITH

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard...
MARGOT ASQUITH

His modesty amounts to deformity.
MARGOT ASQUITH

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
MARGOT ASQUITH

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
MARGOT ASQUITH

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
MARGOT ASQUITH

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant sou...
MARGOT ASQUITH

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the grea...
MARGOT ASQUITH

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life
MARGOT ASQUITH

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility...
MARGOT ASQUITH

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from yo...
MARGOT ASQUITH

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
MARGOT ASQUITH

The t is silent, as in Harlow.
MARGOT ASQUITH

Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
MARGOT ASQUITH

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
MARGOT ASQUITH

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
MARGOT ASQUITH

An imitation rough diamond.
MARGOT ASQUITH

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow ...
MARGOT ASQUITH

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head
MARGOT ASQUITH

[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')
[Margot Asquith] 'Y...
MARGOT ASQUITH Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the...
PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows thr...
HERBERT HOOVER

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever e...
HERBERT HOOVER

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.
GARY HERBERT

Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that w...
GARY HERBERT

When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, ...
GARY HERBERT

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capi...
GARY HERBERT

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
GARY HERBERT

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
GARY HERBERT

When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect w...
GARY HERBERT

Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 sta...
GARY HERBERT

I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
GARY HERBERT

Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob...
GARY HERBERT

I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic l...
GARY HERBERT

Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.
GARY HERBERT

It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses arou...
GARY HERBERT

Strong families are vital to strong societies.
GARY HERBERT

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize t...
GARY HERBERT

Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
GARY HERBERT

As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
GARY HERBERT

My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in educati...
GARY HERBERT

One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common g...
GARY HERBERT

While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that...
GARY HERBERT

The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
GARY HERBERT

There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ough...
GARY HERBERT

I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
GARY HERBERT

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, e...
HERBERT HOOVER

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning...
HERBERT SIMON

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dor...
HERBERT SPENCER

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours ...
HERBERT SPENCER

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's ...
HERBERT SPENCER

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomi...
HERBERT HOOVER

One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT

To build castles in Spain.
GEORGE HERBERT

A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
GEORGE HERBERT

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It w...
HERBERT CROLY

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
GARY HERBERT

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconsc...
HERBERT READ

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out i...
HERBERT HOOVER We think this will be the first of many common variants that cause obesity.
ALAN HERBERT We have found a very common determinant of obesity that's present in populations of different ethnic...
ALAN HERBERT Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it
ALAN HERBERT If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon ...
ALAN HERBERT The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time
ALAN HERBERT The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word sugge...
ALAN HERBERT A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso
ALAN HERBERT

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
HERBERT HOOVER

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day ...
HERBERT HOOVER

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
HERBERT HOOVER

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires...
HERBERT SPENCER

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
HERBERT READ

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
HERBERT SPENCER

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCER

Never was a miser a brave soul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Science is organised knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCER

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want...
AUBERON HERBERT

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
FRANK HERBERT

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCER

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...
FRANK HERBERT

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
FRANK HERBERT

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.
HERBERT SPENCER

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of y...
FRANK HERBERT We wanted to make a statement. A seven-year contract makes a very strong statement that we believe i...
ADAM HERBERT I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect.
ADAM HERBERT He has made very clear his determination that our players will do well academically and will graduat...
ADAM HERBERT I am convinced that our new coach understands fully and is determined to meet Indiana University's h...
ADAM HERBERT Although coach Davis reaffirmed his belief that he can take our program to the levels to which we as...
ADAM HERBERT Coach Davis assumed one of the most difficult challenges any coach can accept by following a legenda...
ADAM HERBERT Coach Davis assumed one of most difficult challenges any coach can accept -- following a legendary p...
ADAM HERBERT He (Davis) thought it was an appropriate time for the AD (athletic director) and me to consider a co...
ADAM HERBERT Mike followed a legendary predecessor and responded to it with character, graciousness and the deter...
ADAM HERBERT I love Indiana University. I think it is an exciting institution and it has been a privilege to serv...
ADAM HERBERT One half who graduate from college never read another book.
HERBERT TRUE A library is thought in cold storage.
HERBERT SAMUEL Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
HERBERT SPENCER A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t...
HERBERT SPENCER Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to...
HERBERT MARCUSE In doing we learn.
GEORGE HERBERT The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
HERBERT SPENCER Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep th...
GEORGE HERBERT Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...
FRANK HERBERT Fear is the mind-killer.
FRANK HERBERT Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...
FRANK HERBERT The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.
HERBERT MARCUSE Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
FRANK HERBERT What does a mirror look at?
FRANK HERBERT Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religi...
FRANK HERBERT Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on...
FRANK HERBERT My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Some...
FRANK HERBERT There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'...
FRANK HERBERT Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit...
FRANK HERBERT The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wi...
FRANK HERBERT Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...
FRANK HERBERT Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
FRANK HERBERT Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's...
FRANK HERBERT Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckle...
FRANK HERBERT The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-im...
FRANK HERBERT What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thin...
FRANK HERBERT Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
FRANK HERBERT It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the fu...
FRANK HERBERT The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
FRANK HERBERT Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
FRANK HERBERT The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
FRANK HERBERT Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find ...
FRANK HERBERT He who controls the spice controls the universe.
FRANK HERBERT The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think...
FRANK HERBERT It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more ...
FRANK HERBERT Hope clouds observation.
FRANK HERBERT There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
FRANK HERBERT When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...
FRANK HERBERT What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
FRANK HERBERT The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
FRANK HERBERT Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
FRANK HERBERT A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
GEORGE HERBERT About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
HERBERT HOOVER A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.
JACK HERBERT In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
HERBERT HOOVER We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day w...
HERBERT HOOVER People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act ...
AUBERON HERBERT One sword keeps another in the sheath.
GEORGE HERBERT Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
HERBERT HOOVER My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooli...
HERBERT HOOVER A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
AUBERON HERBERT Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobi...
HERBERT MARCUSE Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the peopl...
HERBERT HOOVER There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
GEORGE HERBERT In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leaders...
HERBERT HOOVER The eyes have one language everywhere.
GEORGE HERBERT Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
JACK HERBERT Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
JACK HERBERT Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
HERBERT KAUFMAN Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function di...
HERBERT MARCUSE A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
HERBERT PROCHNOW In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
GEORGE HERBERT Do you not see, first, that
AUBERON HERBERT Children are our most valuable natural resource.
HERBERT HOOVER Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT Be thrifty, but not covetous.
GEORGE HERBERT He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion,...
HERBERT MARCUSE Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is t...
HERBERT KAUFMAN If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if th...
HERBERT MARCUSE One enemy is too much.
GEORGE HERBERT When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
HERBERT HOOVER Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
AUBERON HERBERT Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
GEORGE HERBERT I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
GEORGE HERBERT Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
FRANK HERBERT Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
HERBERT HOOVER He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCER All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
GEORGE HERBERT Living well is the best revenge.
GEORGE HERBERT Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies...
HERBERT AGAR There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
HERBERT MARSHALL Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy...
HERBERT HOOVER If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be th...
AUBERON HERBERT How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the ri...
AUBERON HERBERT

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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