John Payne Agricultural Engineers - Agents in Herefordshire for Lely, Welger, Lemken Tri-Ag and Teagle, covering all grassland and cultivation equipment both new and used. Also dealers in Yamaha quad bikes.
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Llangarron He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Llangarron
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Llangarron I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Llangarron
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Llangarron I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Llangarron
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Llangarron Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Llangarron
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Llangarron To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Llangarron
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Llangarron Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Llangarron
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Llangarron If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Llangarron
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Llangarron The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Llangarron
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Llangarron Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Llangarron
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llangarron 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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llangarron
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Llangarron Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Llangarron
