Drighlington Brass Band - Information about the band and its history, with news, an events diary and a listing of their recordings.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Drighlington Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Drighlington
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Drighlington The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Drighlington
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Drighlington Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Drighlington
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Drighlington When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Drighlington
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman 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 most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Drighlington The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Drighlington
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Drighlington Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drighlington
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Drighlington Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Drighlington
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Man and wife make one fool. Drighlington Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Drighlington
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Drighlington Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Drighlington
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Drighlington "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Drighlington
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Drighlington "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Drighlington
