Daily advice

[Neville Briggs]

Machiavelli recognised that governments rule over people either by fear or by love ( i.e. popularity ). Machiavelli recommended that fear was the best way, since popularity is not so reliable a motivator as fear.

[Neville Briggs]

What we need are some brand new clichés.

Sam Goldwyn

[Heather]

How does one get a cliché started?

[Neville Briggs]

It's called an oxymoron, Heather.

Sam Goldwyn was famous for those oxymorons , like

" a verbal contract is not worth the paper it is written on "

[Bob Pacey]

I thought that was a stupid welder Neville ?


get it oxy moron ?

Gees I crack me up


Bob

[Neville Briggs]

Thanks for that Bob. tell it to the maroons . get it...tell it to the mar.... ......................oh never mind

When Pauline Hanson was the Member for Oxley her enemies used to call her " the oxleymoron"

[Neville Briggs]

Repeat, repeat, repeat, revise, revise, revise.

Elizabeth Bishop, poet, on writing.

[Glenny Palmer]

....my favourite quote of all time....


Talk not of baffled genius,
Genius is master of man—
Genius does what it must:
Talent does what it can." (Lytton, contradicting Gray's "...mute, inglorious Milton.")

[Neville Briggs]

That's a good one Glenny.

[Bob Pacey]

Don't step on Supermans cape
Don't spit into the wind
Don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
and don't mess around with Slim !


Bob