Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llanhilleth Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Llanhilleth
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Llanhilleth Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Llanhilleth
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Llanhilleth "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Llanhilleth
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 Llanhilleth Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Llanhilleth
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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.
Llanhilleth "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Llanhilleth
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Llanhilleth The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Llanhilleth
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Llanhilleth I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Llanhilleth
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Llanhilleth If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 Llanhilleth
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Llanhilleth 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 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Llanhilleth
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Llanhilleth "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Llanhilleth
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Llanhilleth "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Llanhilleth
