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"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ammanford People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Ammanford
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Ammanford "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Ammanford
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "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) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Ammanford I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ammanford
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Ammanford "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Ammanford
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Ammanford "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" A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Ammanford
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Ammanford "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Ammanford
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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Ammanford Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Ammanford
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Ammanford Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Ammanford
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Ammanford If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Ammanford
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Ammanford Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ammanford
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Ammanford "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Ammanford
