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May you never leave your marriage alive. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Nantyglo and Blaina Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Nantyglo and Blaina
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Nantyglo and Blaina "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Nantyglo and Blaina
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Nantyglo and Blaina If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Nantyglo and Blaina
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nantyglo and Blaina The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Nantyglo and Blaina
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Man and wife make one fool. Nantyglo and Blaina Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Nantyglo and Blaina
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Nantyglo and Blaina Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Nantyglo and Blaina
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Nantyglo and Blaina Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Nantyglo and Blaina
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nantyglo and Blaina None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Nantyglo and Blaina
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Nantyglo and Blaina The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Nantyglo and Blaina
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Nantyglo and Blaina Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Nantyglo and Blaina
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nantyglo and Blaina I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Nantyglo and Blaina
