Battle Town Homepage - Battle is built on the very site of the famous Battle of 1066, where William the Conqueror defeated King Harold and his Saxon army on that fateful day.
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Battle See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Battle
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. 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
disg "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Battle "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Battle
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Battle I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Battle
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "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 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 Unha Battle "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Battle
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Battle "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) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Battle
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Battle Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Battle
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Battle There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Battle
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Battle I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Battle
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Battle We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Battle
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Battle What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Battle
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Battle I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Battle
