Winterbourne Bassett - Personal site. Information about the village, primarily for residents.
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Winterbourne Bassett If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Winterbourne Bassett
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Winterbourne Bassett The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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) Winterbourne Bassett
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Winterbourne Bassett Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "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) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Winterbourne Bassett
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Winterbourne Bassett Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Winterbourne Bassett
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Winterbourne Bassett 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Winterbourne Bassett
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Winterbourne Bassett What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Winterbourne Bassett
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winterbourne Bassett To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Winterbourne Bassett
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Winterbourne Bassett We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Winterbourne Bassett
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Winterbourne Bassett And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "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, Winterbourne Bassett
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Winterbourne Bassett The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Winterbourne Bassett
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Winterbourne Bassett Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Winterbourne Bassett
