Yet another similar epigram (" Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence ") has been widely attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

He was widely praised for his performances in the two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, " Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both games.

The original You'll Never Get Rich program, which was filmed in black-and-white, was widely rerun into the 1970s.

Never used against the Chinese, the AGS-17 was widely operated and well liked by Soviet troops in Afghanistan as a ground support weapon or as a vehicle weapon on improvised mounts installed on armored personnel carriers and trucks.

Patron Lemoine Pierce said of Alston's work: " Never thought of as an innovative artist, Alston generally ignored popular art trends and violated many mainstream art conventions ; he produced abstract and figurative paintings often simultaneously, refusing to be stylistically consistent, and during his 40-year career he worked prolifically and unapologetically in both commercial and fine art.

A notable recording of a popular song, such as Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow ( from The Wizard of Oz ), Mary Martin singing Never Never Land ( from Peter Pan ), Allan Jones singing The Donkey Serenade ( from The Firefly ), or Danny Kaye singing Inchworm ( from Hans Christian Andersen ) would be heard while the cutouts played on the screen, animated by a concealed puppeteer.

Nevertheless, because Llewelyn was considered one of the franchise's major institutions and he was immensely popular among Bond fans, Llewelyn starred in several commercials, most recently to promote the video games GoldenEye 007 and Tomorrow Never Dies.

British satire has also washed over into Quiz shows – popular examples include the news quiz Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and music-based Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular situation comedy You'll Never Get Rich ( later called The Phil Silvers Show ).

Mark was a pop singer in the 1970s, having hits with songs such as Never Gonna Fall in Love Again and making several appearances on the ABC's popular television series Countdown.

Never seen as a long term plan, this retro theme night however became increasingly popular with the clubbing crowd and became one of the main highlights of the Singapore ’ s clubbing week event list.

Winner and Reed closed out the 1960s as a pair with The Jokers ( 1967 ) ( also starring Michael Crawford ), popular comedy-drama I'll Never Forget What's ' isname ( 1967 ), and the World War II satire Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ).

When she is drunk, she has a tendency to sing very " special " songs, the most popular being " The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All " or simply " The Hedgehog Song " ( never really unveiled by the author beyond a few lines, but many readers have written their own versions ).

As with Mowat's other books, Never Cry Wolf was translated into Russian and published in the Soviet Union .< ref name =" Black "></ REF > The book's message that wolves were harmless mouse-eaters became influential, leading to popular reaction against Soviet wolf-culling efforts.

Hall is a guest on popular BBC panel quiz shows, most notably as a regular guest on QI, for which he has received much critical acclaim and is known as the game's most frequently victorious guest panellist with ten victories ( only permanent panellist Alan Davies has won more shows ), and also with appearances in 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

One of these was developed into the sitcom Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width while the other A Magnum For Schneider, became the pilot for the hugely popular spy series Callan.

" Never on Sunday " was often one of only two songs performed in English at these dances, the other song being " Spanish Eyes " ( formerly " Moon Over Naples ") also internationally popular in its time.

The BBC's popular radio comedy show, The Goon Show, made a send-up of the story of The Man Who Never Was and incorporated most of the regular Goon Show characters.

Laverne became as famous for her funny and acerbic interview style as for her music, making her a popular contestant on comedy panel shows such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Have I Got News For You, memorably referring to contemporaneous girl group the Spice Girls as " Tory scum ".

* " The Twelfth of Never ", title of a popular song

Shocking tanks became popular in the U. S. and UK during the 2004 holiday shopping season when they were introduced by such novelty retailers as The Gadget Shop and Things You Never Knew Existed catalog.

Later albums, such as Madam Butterfly and Supercharged, strayed from the disco format and were less successful on the Pop chart ( although they continued to have Top 10 R & B hits such as " Never Had a Love Like This Before " and the popular socio-political " Bad Times " written by British singer-songwriter Gerard McMahon ).

" Franco made his film debut in a brief role in the 1999 Drew Barrymore-starring Never Been Kissed and his first major movie was the romantic teen comedy Whatever It Takes ( 2000 ), in which he played popular jock Chris.

Some are sly variations of popular ' 70s ' funk tracks, such as " Never Get Outta The Car "' s pastiche of The Brothers Johnson's 1976 hit " Get The Funk Out Ma Face ".

Among his most popular hits were " Never Too Busy " and " For You ".

Elysa Gardner from USA Today called " Never Too Far / Hero " a " refreshing medley " and felt it would easily be accepted among Carey's other popular and heartfelt inspirational ballads.

Although Never Alone was not as popular as its predecessor, the 1979 album My Father's Eyes, it still managed to score a Top Ten Christian hit in " Look What Has Happened To Me.

Examples include the spreading of the RLRR-LRLL pattern amongst the toms on Soundgarden's " Never the Machine Forever " ( from Down on the Upside ); between ride and snare on " Unemployable " ( from Pearl Jam ), creating a driving shuffle ; and " You Are " ( from Riot Act ).

If The Beatles were ever played, instead of familiar tracks like Hey Jude or Lady Madonna, they would play more obscure tracks like Tomorrow Never Knows, Blue Jay Way amongst others.

With songs including the Number 1 UK & European airplay hit of 2007 “ Ruby ”, “ I Predict A Riot ”, “ Never Miss A Beat ” and “ Oh My God ” amongst their most successful.

It has also been argued, as in the book Never at War, that democracies conduct diplomacy in general very differently from nondemocracies.

The objectives of the Never Ending Gardens include hunger alleviation, provision of a nutritional balanced diet, restoration of dignity and respect within the family unit, and general and individual improvement of quality and quantity of life.

Never a close ally of John F. Kennedy, he was dropped as DNC chairman after Kennedy's 1960 general election victory.

Never enthusiastic about the presidency ( or public office in general ), Hindenburg had planned to stand down after his first term.

* Never Trust a Hippie, originally starting as a rock-oriented show ; it quickly moved to cover many genres of music becoming a more general magazine-type program.

The name has also been used as a general term for the poor neighbourhoods of eastern Port of Spain, including not only Laventille " proper " ( Success Village, Trou Macaque, Never Dirty ) but also East Dry River, John-John, Sea lots, Beetham Estate Garden, Caledonia, Maryland, Mon Repos, Chinapoo and Morvant.

: Never seen among the general police population, this woman is the creator and commander of the Warriors.

The album was instrumental in introducing disco music to the public, " Never Can Say Goodbye " becoming the first song to top Billboard magazine's dance chart.

** Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee police for public obscenity, for reciting his " Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television " at Summerfest.

Sydney Smith wrote, " Never was any administration so completely and so suddenly destroyed ; and, I believe, entirely by the Duke's declaration, made, I suspect, in perfect ignorance of the state of public feeling and opinion.

Never since the outbreak of the Revolution had the public temper seemed so gloomy.

Never liked by the public, and loathed by the Roman Catholic Church and the Armed Forces despite his avowed right-wing views, López Rega was a man considered by others in the halls of power as a borderline psychopath, and, worse, the sport of being the " power behind the throne ," which he leveraged to secure business partnerships with Muammar Gaddafi, Zairean dictator Joseph Mobutu, and the Italian Fascist Licio Gelli ( to whose P-2 lodge López Rega belonged ).

In 1969, the Castro-led band completed Never Goin ' Back To Georgia, but that release did not attract public attention either.

Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist.

Despite her relatively low public profile, Aline Chrétien was also recognized as a powerful advisor to her husband ; Maclean's magazine once wrote, " Never mind calling her the power behind the throne — she shares the seat of power ", and columnist Allan Fotheringham later called her the second most powerful political figure in Canada, behind her husband but ahead of any elected Member of Parliament or any staffer in the PMO.

: Never before have such dramatic love scenes, such spectacular adventure been placed before the public.

Never taken as a serious political candidate again, McDougall fell out of public view after 1852.

Davies herself, after a long time away from the public eye, appeared as a guest on the identity parade segment of Never Mind the Buzzcocks on 10 January 2008.

The word came to public attention in 1937 with the publication of Wide Boys Never Work by Robert Westerby, a novel about gamblers and hustlers.

Never marrying, his tremendous energy poured into politics, sociology, public administration and economics.