Balsall Bad Boys - News, articles and humor from a group of friends in Balsall Common and Berkswell villages.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Balsall Common Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Balsall Common
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Balsall Common In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Balsall Common
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Balsall Common Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balsall Common
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Balsall Common "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Balsall Common
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Balsall Common A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Balsall Common
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Balsall Common 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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Balsall Common
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Balsall Common Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Balsall Common
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Balsall Common Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Balsall Common
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Balsall Common "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Balsall Common
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Balsall Common "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balsall Common
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Balsall Common A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Balsall Common
