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#1. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#2. The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

#3. Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#4. I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

#5. Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#6. A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

Rick Warren

#7. Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#8. HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#9. The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#11. As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

#12. In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#13. Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#14. Bright and illustrious illusions!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

#16. Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#17. They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#18. Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

#19. Putin signed legislation that has been floating around the Duma for years: as of July 1st, there will be no swearing in movies and theatrical productions or from the concert stage.

Anonymous

#20. There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word "exit" which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :"No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success

Pablo

#21. According to Bastardi, human-induced climate change contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.

Joe Bastardi

#22. Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#23. If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#24. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#25. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#26. Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,
prayer.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#27. The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

#28. We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see ... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

David Cross

#29. Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

#30. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#31. Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#32. The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#33. The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#34. In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#35. 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

#36. In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#37. A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#38. True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

#39. A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#40. But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#41. Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#42. You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

Sebastian Bach

#43. 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

#44. A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#45. Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#46. Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#47. That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.

Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

#48. If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

#49. It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#50. The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn

#51. If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#52. It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#53. A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#54. 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

#55. Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#56. The enzyme beta-glucoronidase is necessary to ... 'trigger off'.. laetrile ... after the laetrile injection, we injected directly into the tumor ... beta-glucoronidase. The result was white slough which encompassed the (tumor) growth. ... The slough resorbed and was replaced by normal (tissue).

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#57. There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.

Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

#58. They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#59. That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

#60. The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

Nancy Garden

#61. I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#62. The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#63. Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.

A.E. Samaan

#64. 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

#65. Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#66. The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#67. Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#68. In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#69. Rest is sweet after strife.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#70. Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved ...

Inigo Lopez De Mendoza, 1st Marquis Of Santillana

#71. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

#72. Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.

Roger Miller

#73. Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#74. 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

#75. No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#76. He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#77. A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#78. The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

#79. Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#80. The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

#81. A man of the utmost insignificance.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

#82. Nothing ages like laziness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#83. The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#84. Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#85. Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

#86. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#87. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

#88. Strangers will show you the way

But a true friend will escort you,

to your destination.

1st November, 2006

Tushar Mangl

#89. 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

#90. Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#91. The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#92. There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#93. There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#94. To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#95. The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

John Shelby Spong

#96. Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

#97. He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#98. War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#99. Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#100. The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.

Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet