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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Bramcote We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Bramcote
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "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) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, Bramcote Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Bramcote
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Bramcote 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Bramcote
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow Bramcote Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Bramcote
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Bramcote "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Bramcote
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bramcote "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Bramcote
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 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Bramcote "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Bramcote
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Bramcote We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Bramcote
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Bramcote We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Bramcote
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Bramcote Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Bramcote
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Bramcote Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bramcote
