David Frost

David Frost

Sir David Paradine Frost, Kt., OBE (born 7 April 1939) is a British journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and daytime TV game show host best known for his two decades as host of Through the Keyhole and serious interviews with various political figures, the most notable being Richard Nixon. Since 2012 he has been hosting the weekly programme The Frost Interview. From 2006-2012 he hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English.

Read more about David Frost:  Early Life, That Was The Week That Was (TW3), After TW3, Achievements, Frost/Nixon, Personal Life, Selected Awards and Honours, Publications

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    The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    But the worst one of all to leave uncurbed,
    Unsocialized, is ingenuity:
    Which for no sordid self-aggrandizement,
    For nothing but its own blind satisfaction ...
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)