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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Bramley A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Bramley
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Bramley "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Bramley
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Bramley "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Bramley
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Bramley When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Bramley
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Bramley I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Bramley
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Bramley 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Bramley
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Bramley I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Bramley
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Bramley Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Bramley
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Bramley "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Bramley
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Bramley To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Bramley It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Bramley
