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My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Bramley If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Bramley
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Bramley "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Bramley
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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? Bramley To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Bramley
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bramley 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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Bramley
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Bramley 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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Bramley
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Bramley 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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Bramley
"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) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bramley If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bramley
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "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) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Bramley Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Bramley
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Bramley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Bramley
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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 Bramley "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Bramley
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Bramley Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Bramley
