Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Aberaeron If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Aberaeron
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Aberaeron A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Aberaeron
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "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) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Aberaeron When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Aberaeron
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Aberaeron "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Aberaeron
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Aberaeron "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Aberaeron
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) 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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Aberaeron Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 Aberaeron
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Aberaeron blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Aberaeron
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Aberaeron There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Aberaeron
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Aberaeron We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Aberaeron
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Aberaeron Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Aberaeron
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Aberaeron He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Aberaeron
