Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Llangollen The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Llangollen
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Llangollen Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Llangollen
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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Llangollen "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Llangollen
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Llangollen They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Llangollen
"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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Llangollen We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Llangollen
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Llangollen "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Llangollen
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Llangollen You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Llangollen
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Llangollen "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Llangollen
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Llangollen The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Llangollen
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "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 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 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 Llangollen Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Llangollen
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Llangollen Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Llangollen
