Great People, Funny Words
If the purpose of dinner is to nourish the body, the man who eats two dinners at a sitting may perhaps attain greater enjoyment but not his object,
After seeing Faraday’s demonstration of electromagnetism, Gladstone, the then Chancellor of Exchequer asked,”But what use is it?” Faraday replied that he did not know, but he dared hazard that one day the Chancellor would be able to tax it.
“Wilkes,” said Lord Sandwich,”you will die either on gallows, or of the pox.” “That,” replied Wilkes blandly,”must depend on whether I embrace your lordship’s principles or your mistress.”
Leo Tolstoy, in his book ‘War and Peace’ has written this small paragraph regarding marriage: If the purpose of dinner is to nourish the body, the man who eats two dinners at a sitting may perhaps attain greater enjoyment but not his object, since the stomach will not digest two dinners. If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who seeks to have a number of wives or husbands may possibly obtain much pleasure therefrom, but will not in any case have a family.
Karl Marx, the author of famous ‘Das Kapital’, the Bible of Modern Communism, was survived by his wife, who when asked if her marriage had been a happy one, had replied: “Yes,” she said with a sigh and added, ” we were happy enough, but I wish Karl had spent some time acquiring capital instead merely writing about it.”
Asked by a journalist to define requisites of a politician, Churchill said: “It is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow and the intelligence on the day after to explain why it did not happen.”
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