Buttevant - Town founded in the early 1200s, includes history and area information.
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Buttevant Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Buttevant
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Buttevant Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Buttevant
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Buttevant It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Buttevant
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Buttevant Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Buttevant
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Buttevant What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Buttevant
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Buttevant In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Buttevant
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Buttevant If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Buttevant
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Buttevant Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Buttevant
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Buttevant The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Buttevant
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Buttevant I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Buttevant
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Buttevant Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Buttevant
