Quotes:'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal h
onor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'
View quotes by John Paul Jones'You see pictures of B
ono running around LA with his little white legs and a bottle of Volvic and he looks like a f*nny.'
View quotes by Liam GallagherI have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and h
onoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible
View quotes by Michael JacksonTyndall, I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if I accepted the h
onour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year. (On being offered the presidency of the Royal Society)
View quotes by Michael FaradayOn B
ono from U2: "It would be great to do a duet with him. We could call ourselves B
ono and Donno."
View quotes by Donny OsmondWell he's better than Jason D
onovan, Pete - with reference to a contestant who Pete said couldn't sing
View quotes by Louis WalshBigamy is having one wife too many. M
onogamy is the same.
View quotes by Oscar WildeA life spent making mistakes is not only more h
onourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw'I will h
onour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.'
View quotes by Charles DickensMy h
onour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
View quotes by CleopatraCall a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be 'unec
onomic' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper (Small is beautiful, 1973)
View quotes by E F SchumacherOur whole ec
onomy is based on planned obsolescence
View quotes by Brooks StevensBritain will be h
onoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
View quotes by Lord HarlechEc
onomics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
View quotes by Margaret ThatcherIt is the inalienable right of every Englishman to pr
onounce foreign words exactly as he pleases.
View quotes by Winston ChurchillThe right h
onourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth. (On Robert Peel)
View quotes by Benjamin DisraeliLet no one expect anything of certainty from astr
onomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
View quotes by Nicolas CopernicusNucular... It's pr
onounced Nucular
View quotes by Homer Simpson'I did not see the whole. I only saw this rock ahead of me; I only saw this pois
onous snake which I had to kill in order to take the next step. I only saw the problem directly in front of me. If I had seen the whole thing, I would have been too overwhelmed to have attempted this.'
View quotes by Henry Morton StanleyMen, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither h
onours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me
View quotes by Giuseppe GaribaldiIf the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I should have recommended something simpler (on the Ptolemaic system of astr
onomy)
View quotes by Alfonso XThe Queen mentioned that some of us smelled as though we had been drinking (after being h
onoured at Buckingham Palace)
View quotes by Josh LewseyH
onour is like a match, you can only use it once
View quotes by Marcel PagnolLife is a foreign language: all men mispr
onounce it (Thunder on the Left)
View quotes by Christopher MorleyThe best of all m
onopoly profits is a quiet life (Ec
onometrica)
View quotes by J R HicksReason has moons, but moons not hers,
Lie mirrored on her sea,
Confounding her astr
onomers,
But, O! delighting me. ('Reason Has Moons')
View quotes by Ralph HodgsonWe made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to h
onor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.
View quotes by Peter JacksonThe politics of the left and centre of the country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and ec
onomic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? (speech, 1980)
View quotes by Roy JenkinsI have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of h
onour
View quotes by Grover ClevelandThe cold metal of ec
onomic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own
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