Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Porthcawl Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Porthcawl
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 Porthcawl History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Porthcawl
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Porthcawl "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Porthcawl
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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Porthcawl Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Porthcawl
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Porthcawl Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Porthcawl
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Porthcawl We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Porthcawl
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Porthcawl Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Porthcawl
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Porthcawl "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Porthcawl
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Porthcawl "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) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Porthcawl
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Porthcawl Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Porthcawl
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Porthcawl "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) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Porthcawl
