Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Ebbw Vale The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Ebbw Vale
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Ebbw Vale I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Ebbw Vale
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Ebbw Vale "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Ebbw Vale
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Ebbw Vale If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ebbw Vale
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "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) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Ebbw Vale Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Ebbw Vale
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Ebbw Vale The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Ebbw Vale
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Ebbw Vale "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Ebbw Vale
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Ebbw Vale You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Ebbw Vale
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Ebbw Vale The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Ebbw Vale
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Ebbw Vale It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Ebbw Vale
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Ebbw Vale I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Ebbw Vale
