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"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Abertillery "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Abertillery
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Abertillery We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Abertillery
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Abertillery The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Abertillery
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 Abertillery "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Abertillery
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Abertillery It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Abertillery
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Abertillery Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Abertillery
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Abertillery Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Abertillery
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Abertillery "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Abertillery
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Abertillery The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Abertillery
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Abertillery He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Abertillery
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "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) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Abertillery "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Abertillery
