1st Quotes

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Any act of hatred or violence to anyone on this planet is an act of hatred to everyone. To destroy other innocent lives because they act or feel different, believe different ideologies or religions, speak a different tongue or are a different color is a abomination and crime against humanity. The world is diverse ... it always will be. Diversity is what makes us human. It's time to stop acting like 1st century barbarians destroying everything we believe is wrong and for the sake of humanity ... put all our differences to bed and try to get along. ~ Timothy Pina

The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive. ~ William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all. ~ Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The greatest regret of my military career was as Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, he later wrote of the decision he made. I lost 169 soldiers during that year-long deployment. However, the monument we erected at Fort Hood, Texas, in memoriam lists 168 names. I approved the request of others not to include the name of the one soldier who committed suicide. I deeply regret my decision. ~ David Finkel

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

But I'm not your man." When I heard this fool tell me that...1st emotion 'this bold mutha %#&@$ a'...2nd emotion 'but I don't even want you to be'...3rd emotion 'imma let him know that I will not be talked to like that' So, I did exactly what my gut had been telling me to do the past two weeks and I boldly returned the comment with..."this is over.""Without a doubt, I believe that anyone reading this gem of microscopic insight into the heart of broken women will end up with a brand new perspective of themselves and others. ~ Melissa McAllister

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic. ~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed. ~ John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon Of Tara

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. ~ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy. ~ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,
violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man. ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes. ~ Joseph Stalin

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,
the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. ~ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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

Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees. ~ Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. ~ Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. ~ Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th. ~ Gilbert Melendez

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Success never needs an excuse. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Where laws end, tyranny begins. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare. ~ Holly Lisle

Rank is a great beautifier. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go? ~ Hal Elrod

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Why don't you be together with me? If you can't say it out now, then you just answer by selecting ...
1st, if you say YES, we will get married right away
2nd, if you say NO, I will use every possible way to make you say YES and get married right away
3rd, if you say you need time to consider, I will give you one day to think over it and then get married
So you just choose, is it YES or NO? No, it's either 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Marry or not marry? ~ Park Shin-yang

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
If only the dead could find out when
To come back, and be forgiven. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful. ~ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Major General Leonard Wood

Leonard Wood was an army officer and physician, born October 9, 1860 in Winchester, New Hampshire. His first assignment was in 1886 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona where he fought in the last campaign against the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and was promoted to the rank of Captain, commanding a detachment of the 8th Infantry.

From 1887 to 1898, he served as a medical officer in a number of positions, the last of which was as the personal physician to President William McKinley. In 1898 at the beginning of the war with Spain, he was given command of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry. The regiment was soon to be known as the "Rough Riders." Wood lead his men on the famous charge up San Juan Hill and was given a field promotion to brigadier general.

In 1898 he was appointed the Military Governor of Santiago de Cuba. In 1920, as a retired Major General, Wood ran as the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, losing to Warren Harding. In 1921 following his defeat, General Wood accepted the post of Governor General of the Philippines. He held this position from 1921 to 1927, when he died of a brain tumor in Boston, on 7 August 1927, at 66 years of age after which he was buried, with full honors, in Arlington National Cemetery. ~ Hank Bracker

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

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ~ William Bligh

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence. ~ John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance. ~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo. ~ Craig Ferguson

However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances. ~ Charles Montagu, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd. ~ William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

December 16, 1846, the fifteen composing the "Forlorn Hope," left Donner Lake. January 17, 1847, as they reached Johnson's ranch; and February 5th Capt. Tucker's party started to the assistance of the emigrants. This first relief arrived February 19th at the cabins; the second relief, or Reed's party, arrived March 1st; the third, or Foster's, about the middle of March; and the fourth, or Fallon's, on the seventeenth of April. Upon the arrival of Capt. Fallon's company, the sight presented at the cabins beggars all description. Capt. R. P. Tucker, now of Goleta, Santa Barbara County, Cal., endeavors, in his correspondence, to give a slight idea of the scene. ~ C.F. McGlashan

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly. ~ Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius! ~ Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth
of carefully respecting the property of others
of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing. ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. ~ George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter. ~ Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. ~ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors ... must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled. ~ Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. ~ F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

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

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

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

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them. ~ John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher