Port Gordon Village - Site for the village with local information, photographs and links.
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Portgordon
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-- Robert A. Humphrey The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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- H. G. Wells There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Portgordon
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-- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
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-- Virginia Woolf When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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- Aristotle I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Portgordon
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Portgordon "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
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-- Mark Twain I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Portgordon
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway May you never leave your marriage alive. Portgordon Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Portgordon "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Portgordon
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Portgordon "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Portgordon
