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blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Colwyn Bay I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Colwyn Bay
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Colwyn Bay Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colwyn Bay
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 sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Colwyn Bay He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Colwyn Bay
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Colwyn Bay A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Colwyn Bay
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Colwyn Bay blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Colwyn Bay
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Colwyn Bay A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Colwyn Bay
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Colwyn Bay Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Colwyn Bay
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Colwyn Bay Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Colwyn Bay
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Colwyn Bay These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Colwyn Bay
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Colwyn Bay If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Colwyn Bay
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Colwyn Bay Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Colwyn Bay
