1st Monthsary Quotes

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. ~ Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. ~ George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The same Being that fashioned the insect whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun! ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

From November 1st, said Hans Frank, it would be possible for the Germans of Cracow to breathe 'good German air', to walk abroad without seeing the streets and lanes 'crawling with Jews'. ~ Thomas Keneally

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper. ~ Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed

I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films. ~ Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart. ~ Dan Gable

1541 In this year 1 on March 1st came at last the Passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. ~ Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk. ~ Derf

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that. ~ Francis Norris, 1st Earl Of Berkshire

The curse of the great is ennui. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the winds may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the king of England cannot enter. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Words, however, are things. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

PANCAKES 3½ cups frozen hash brown potatoes 2 eggs (2 extra large or 3 small) ¼ cup grated onion (or ½ teaspoon onion powder) 1 teaspoon season salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 2 Tablespoons cracker crumbs (matzo meal or flour will also work) 1/8 cup butter (¼ stick, 1 ounce) for frying 1/8 cup good olive oil for frying Toppings for the Table: sour cream applesauce cherry sauce*** blueberry sauce*** apricot sauce*** Hannah's 1st Note: Great-Grandma ~ Joanne Fluke

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. ~ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move. ~ Kristen Schaal

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination. ~ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The deepest rivers make least din. ~ William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law. ~ Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. ~ Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

America's 1st Arab spring came in the guise of the Civil War ... when our nation couldn't stomach the abomination of slavery anymore. One can't help keep wondering ... when the next one will come. ~ Timothy Pina

The inevitability of gradualness. ~ Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

The morning of September 1st met the citizen of the village shining with beautiful sunny weather.
A refreshing breeze, enriched by acerb fragrances of maple, oak, and poplar tree leaves that already began changing their colors for autumn, blew from the lake. ~ Sahara Sanders

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. ~ Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon