16 Tambourines - Dedicated to the Liverpool band 16 Tambourines signed to Arista/BMG in the late 80's. Brief history with photographs and links.
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan 1 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 1
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 1 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 1
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 1 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 1
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 1 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone 1 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 1
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley 1 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 1
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is 1 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 1
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" 1 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 1
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun 1 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 1
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 1 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce 1 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 1
