Patrick George Callaghan

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is like a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Spanish painter. I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-78 French philosopher. One would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well. Margaret Thatcher 1925- British stateswoman. Charm… it’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have. J.M. Barrie 1860-1937 Scottish writer. The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. Fran Lebowitz 1946- American writer. This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order, letters for the rich, letters for the poor. The shop at the corner, the girl next door. W.H. Auden 1907-73 English poet.

‘Being a personality is not the same as having a personality.’ Alan Coren. 1938-2007 English writer. ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ Woody Allen. 1935- American film producer. ‘Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.’ Stephen King. 1947- American writer. ‘I must say that I’m interested in leisure in the same way as a poor man is interested in money.’ Prince Phillip. 1921- Duke of Edinburgh.  ‘Work is much more fun than fun.’ Sir Noel Coward. 1899-1973 English entertainer. ‘When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.’ Prince Phillip. 1921- Duke of Edinburgh

I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Stephen Hawking 1942- English theoretical physicist. The Internet is an elite organisation; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call. Noam Chomsky 1928- American linguist. The symbol of the atomic age, which tended to centralise power, was a nucleus with electrons held in tight orbit; the symbol of the digital age is the web, with countless centres of power all equally networked. Walter Isaacson 1952- American writer. The email of the species is deadlier than the mail. Stephen Fry 1957- English comedian .

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. 1803-73 British novelist. Predictions can be very difficult – especially about the future. Niels Bohr 1885-1962 Danish physicist. A garden is a lovesome thing. God wot! T.E. Brown. 1830-97 Manx schoolmaster. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare. 1564-1616 English dramatist. A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. 1741-1803 French soldier. No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela. 1918- South African statesman.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio, Lord Nelson 1758-1805 British admiral. I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. Jose Ortega y Gasset 1883-1955 Spanish writer . The Parks are the lungs of London. William Pitt 1708-78 British statesman. Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen 1775-1817 English novelist. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 Irish dramatist. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936 English writer.

Interesting Quotes From The Past… We all know that Art is not truth. Art is like a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Spanish painter. I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-78 French philosopher. One would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well. Margaret Thatcher 1925- British stateswoman. Charm… it’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have. J.M. Barrie 1860-1937 Scottish writer. The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. Fran Lebowitz 1946- American writer. This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order, letters for the rich, letters for the poor. The shop at the corner, the girl next door. W.H. Auden 1907-73 English poet.

Interesting Quotes From The Past… A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 Scottish born writer. One sometimes sees more clearly in the man who lies than in the man who tells the truth. Truth, like the light, blinds. Lying, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight, which gives to each object its value. Albert Camus 1913-1960 French writer. A novel is a mirror which passes over a motorway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road. Stendhal 1783-1842 French novelist. The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 Irish dramatist. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. Samuel Johnson 1709-84 English lexicographer. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazi...