Burness One-Name Study - Research on the surname Burness anywhere in the world including origin, spelling variations, distribution and family trees.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Burness "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 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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Burness
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Burness There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Burness
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Burness Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Burness
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Burness Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Burness
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Burness The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Burness
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Burness "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Burness
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Burness "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Burness
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Burness I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Burness
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Marriage is a rest period between romances. Burness Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Burness
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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Burness "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Burness
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Burness The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Burness
