Textile Parts - Suppliers of second hand textile machinery, spare parts for spinning and weaving machines; and of quality Irish linen.
www.rosbrien.com - Website of wireless access network group in this suburb, with news, chat, member list and docuentation.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Rosbrien I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Rosbrien
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Rosbrien "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Rosbrien
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Rosbrien If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Rosbrien
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Rosbrien Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Rosbrien
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Rosbrien Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Rosbrien
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Rosbrien 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Rosbrien
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Rosbrien Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Rosbrien
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Rosbrien "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Rosbrien
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Rosbrien For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Rosbrien
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Rosbrien Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Rosbrien
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Rosbrien Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Rosbrien
