Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tregaron I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Tregaron
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Tregaron The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tregaron
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) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Tregaron There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tregaron
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, 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Tregaron Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Tregaron
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Tregaron "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Tregaron
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Tregaron 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Tregaron
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Tregaron Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Tregaron
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 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Tregaron I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Tregaron
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 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Tregaron When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Tregaron
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Tregaron If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Tregaron
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Tregaron Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Tregaron
