Brigg Market Town - Information about the town, with an events diary, links page, and travel planner.
Brigg Portal - Developed in order to promote Brigg and the hinterland.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Brigg Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Brigg
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Brigg Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Brigg
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brigg I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Brigg
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Brigg "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 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 Brigg
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Brigg The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Brigg
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Brigg The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Brigg
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Brigg Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Brigg
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brigg If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Brigg
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Brigg "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Brigg
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brigg A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Brigg
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Brigg "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Brigg
