Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Llandudno It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Llandudno
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Llandudno Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Llandudno
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Llandudno "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Llandudno
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "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 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Llandudno "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Llandudno
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Llandudno It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Llandudno
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Llandudno In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Llandudno
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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" This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Llandudno "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Llandudno
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Llandudno "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Llandudno
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Llandudno To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Llandudno
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Llandudno An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Llandudno
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Llandudno Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Llandudno
