The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 Ross-on-Wye Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ross-on-Wye
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Ross-on-Wye Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Ross-on-Wye
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Ross-on-Wye With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Ross-on-Wye
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Ross-on-Wye Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Ross-on-Wye
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Ross-on-Wye Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Ross-on-Wye
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Ross-on-Wye To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Ross-on-Wye
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Ross-on-Wye Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Ross-on-Wye
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Ross-on-Wye 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 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Ross-on-Wye
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Ross-on-Wye It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' My other wife is beautiful. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Ross-on-Wye
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Ross-on-Wye To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ross-on-Wye
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Ross-on-Wye You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Ross-on-Wye
