Mundy Quotes

#1. When you are reading something, Mr. Mundy, ask yourself why you are reading it. Are you reading something for information? That is one reason. Or are you reading it for knowledge? Information is only the path, Mr. Mundy. The goal is knowledge.

John Le Carre

#2. My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

A. N. Wilson

#3. We cannot live in a bubble, Mr. Mundy. Comfortable ignorance is not a solution. In German student societies that I was not permitted to join, they made a toast: 'Better to be a salamander, and live in the fire.'" After

John Le Carre

#4. Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.

Talbot Mundy

#5. Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

Liza Mundy

#6. Silence is the only safe answer to Silence.

Talbot Mundy

#7. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?

Talbot Mundy

#8. Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Vanna Bonta

#9. If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh

Talbot Mundy

#10. Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

Liza Mundy

#11. In a British University, a final exam question on Business was:
"Define what risk is".
The shortest answer ever at one word was :
"This."
The student handed the essay in and got 100%.

Anonymous

#12. Some of them will welcome me as small boys do a teacher, telling me the little secrets better to conceal the big ones.For I tell you, that secrets are not kept by being secretive;

Talbot Mundy

#13. I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. You can never have too many penguins.

Robyn Mundy

#15. It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

Nigel Lawson

#16. Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

Liza Mundy

#17. Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Werner Heisenberg

#19. Where the hell did this come from? Alex flipped through a Pondimin package insert he had found in another box and saw the last line: Revised June 20, 1996. A similar warning for Redux, a nearly identical drug, was dated April 29, 1996.

Alicia Mundy

#20. Everyone who knows anything knows the things that can harm you are always the things closest to you. Hello?

Tiffany Reisz

#21. one of the conditions or problems of having knowledge, that a seemingly simple question only has a simple answer if one's knowledge is simple, but simplicity is not truth, for the greater one's knowledge, the more one must consider if a fair answer is to be given.

Jordan Baker

#22. No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage ...

William Shakespeare

#23. While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

Liza Mundy

#24. churches are evil, aren't they? What with the crosses and the rituals and the singing.

C.L.Stone

#25. I hate to feel squeamish almost as much as I hate to sit and think, both being sure-fire ways of getting into trouble. The only safe thing I know is to follow opportunity and leave the man behind to do the worrying. More people die lingering, ghastly deaths in arm-chairs and in bed than anywhere.

Talbot Mundy

#26. For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who are indifferent--extravagant and wasteful for the selfish--strong and honorable only toward honest men.

Talbot Mundy

#27. But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.

Talbot Mundy

#28. Fear is an ugly weapon, sahib, whose hilt is more dangerous than its blade.

Talbot Mundy

#29. What is beyond the darkness? Some say chaos and darker night. I say sunrise.

Talbot Mundy

#30. A person cannot be a Marine without honor.

Carl Epting Mundy Jr.

#31. Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity ... So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.

Liza Mundy

#32. Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Anatole France