James Goldsmith
James Goldsmith
Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith, a member of the prominent Goldsmith family, was an British billionaire financier, tycoon, and latterly a magazine publisher and politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the shortlived eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom. He was known for his many romantic relationships and for the various children he fathered with his wives and many girlfriends...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 February 1933
CountryFrance
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.
When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.
The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Beauty is a social necessity.
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.
The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.