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Bricket Wood Neighbourhood Watch - General advice, advice for women, local crime news, history of the fund raising and activities of the group.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Bricket Wood "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bricket Wood
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Bricket Wood He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Bricket Wood
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Bricket Wood Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Bricket Wood
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Bricket Wood "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Bricket Wood
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Bricket Wood Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Bricket Wood
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What's new? Most of my wife. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Bricket Wood .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Bricket Wood
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Bricket Wood I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Bricket Wood
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Bricket Wood "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Bricket Wood
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Bricket Wood Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Bricket Wood
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Bricket Wood I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Bricket Wood
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Bricket Wood "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Bricket Wood
