Ian White1/10/2010: Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (born 9 December 1933 in London, UK) is an author and syndicated cartoonist living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant achieved American citizenship in 1969.
Brilliant graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in history in 1964 and taught on a "Floating University" an educational cruise ship that travelled around the world in the mid-60s. He later taught at a community college in Bend, Oregon.
During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967 he gave daily lectures near the Haight St. entrance of Golden Gate Park. The Wall Street Journal described him in a 1992 profile as "history's only full time, professional published epigrammatist."
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other
If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be
Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most
I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove
My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about
Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story
By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not
If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think
I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent
Consumption Malfunction
Equal and Opposite
Arses and Elbows
Footy Power