There is only one nature the division into science and engineering is a human imposition not a natural one. Indeed the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
The ingrained idea that because there is no king and they despise titles the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue…. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English a long-suffering phlegmatic patient people rather insensitive to surprise stoical against storms. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved Id place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: Leave slide rules here. If I didnt do that Id find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then hed be on his feet saying Boss you cant do it.
Our England is a garden and such gardens are not made By singing Oh how wonderful and sitting in the shade While better men than we go out and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.
Even today well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
There is only one nature the division into science and engineering is a human imposition not a natural one. Indeed the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
The future of the aircraft industry is still the responsibility of the engineer. Money alone never did and never will create anything.
In total desperation I called over to the engineering building and I said Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English whom are you going to speak it to?
England is the paradise of women the purgatory of men and the hell of horses.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are check enclosed.
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isnt sex but something else.
The ingrained idea that because there is no king and they despise titles the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue…. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English a long-suffering phlegmatic patient people rather insensitive to surprise stoical against storms. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.
The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses hell for women….
Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.
England with all thy faults I love thee still My country!
London that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain
English was good enough for Jesus Christ and its good enough for the children of Texas.
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
No Sir when a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved Id place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: Leave slide rules here. If I didnt do that Id find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then hed be on his feet saying Boss you cant do it.
Our England is a garden and such gardens are not made By singing Oh how wonderful and sitting in the shade While better men than we go out and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.
There are many religions but there is only one morality.
Even today well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm.