Palmerston Quotes

#1. There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#2. If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick,

John Cleese

#3. We have not eternal allies and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and peretual and those interests it is out duty to follow.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#4. Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#5. Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#6. What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#7. Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#8. We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#9. Driving is the only thing I love about F1.

Kimi Raikkonen

#10. Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#11. The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#12. Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#13. I don't think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, that
every breath was charmed and crisp.

Kendare Blake

#14. There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Shaun White

#15. Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

F. Sionil Jose

#16. Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.

Chuck Klosterman