Ed Townsend Quotes

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

Only accurate rifles are interesting

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.

In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

Happiness is an immunity.

noise is a pollution.

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?