Bonar Law Historic Site - Developed to commemorate the birthplace of the former prime minister. Located in Rexton, New Brunswick. Includes short biography.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Bonar Law, Andrew The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Bonar Law, Andrew
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Bonar Law, Andrew One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Bonar Law, Andrew
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 Bonar Law, Andrew "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Bonar Law, Andrew
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Bonar Law, Andrew "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Bonar Law, Andrew
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Bonar Law, Andrew Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Bonar Law, Andrew
"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, I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "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) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Bonar Law, Andrew The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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 Bonar Law, Andrew
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Bonar Law, Andrew "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Bonar Law, Andrew
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Bonar Law, Andrew I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bonar Law, Andrew
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Bonar Law, Andrew "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Bonar Law, Andrew
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bonar Law, Andrew "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Bonar Law, Andrew
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Bonar Law, Andrew The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Bonar Law, Andrew
