Jonathan Aitken famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.
-- Jonathan Aitken

#Glasses #Hands
Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride
-- Jonathan Aitken

#Pride #Sin #Bursting
If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.
-- Jonathan Aitken

#Thinking #Sinuses #Sinai
As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.
-- Jonathan Aitken

#Eton #Misery #Quarters
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.
-- Jonathan Aitken

#Appreciation #Glasses #Arabia
I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.
-- Jonathan Aitken

#Believe #Rehabilitation #Ingredients

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Jonathan Aitken famous quotes

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