Colebrooke Park - Stately Home and seat of Viscount and Viscountess Brookeborough, offering accommodation, shooting, fishing, stalking and conference facilities.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Brookeborough Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Brookeborough
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Brookeborough It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Brookeborough
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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "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) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brookeborough Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Brookeborough
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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,
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Brookeborough I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Brookeborough
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Brookeborough Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Brookeborough
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Brookeborough He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Brookeborough
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Brookeborough A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Brookeborough
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 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 Brookeborough If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Brookeborough
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Brookeborough "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Brookeborough
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Brookeborough 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 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Brookeborough
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Brookeborough Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Brookeborough
