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Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Bramham The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Bramham
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Bramham blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Bramham
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Bramham "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Bramham
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Bramham There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Bramham
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 "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) 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, Bramham Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Bramham
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Bramham "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Bramham
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bramham "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Bramham
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Bramham "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Bramham
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Bramham Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Bramham
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Bramham Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Bramham
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Bramham Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Bramham
