I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Pencoed Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Pencoed
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Pencoed Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Pencoed
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Pencoed Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Pencoed
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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pencoed "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Pencoed
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Pencoed The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Pencoed
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Pencoed I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Pencoed
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Pencoed "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Pencoed
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Pencoed "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Pencoed
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "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) Pencoed "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Pencoed
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Pencoed "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Pencoed
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Pencoed "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Pencoed
