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Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Bridgend County Borough Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Bridgend County Borough
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Bridgend County Borough "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Bridgend County Borough
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bridgend County Borough "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Bridgend County Borough
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Bridgend County Borough It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Bridgend County Borough
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Bridgend County Borough A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Bridgend County Borough
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Bridgend County Borough Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Bridgend County Borough
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Bridgend County Borough "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Bridgend County Borough
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Bridgend County Borough Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Bridgend County Borough
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Bridgend County Borough 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 An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Bridgend County Borough
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Bridgend County Borough Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bridgend County Borough
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Bridgend County Borough Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Bridgend County Borough
