Bredgar - Includes photos, local attractions, business directory and consus records.
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Bredgar "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Bredgar
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Bredgar For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Bredgar
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Bredgar Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 Bredgar
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Bredgar An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Bredgar
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi 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 Bredgar I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Bredgar
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Bredgar You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Bredgar
"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) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Bredgar "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Bredgar
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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? 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Bredgar I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bredgar
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Bredgar Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Bredgar
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Bredgar Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Bredgar
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 Bredgar There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Bredgar
