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It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law 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 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Trefriw blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Trefriw
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Trefriw None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trefriw
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Trefriw "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Trefriw
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Trefriw I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trefriw
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "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) 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" No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Trefriw The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trefriw
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Trefriw The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Trefriw
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Trefriw Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Trefriw
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Trefriw I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Trefriw
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Trefriw A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Trefriw
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Trefriw The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Trefriw
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Trefriw Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Trefriw
