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Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Rhyl The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Rhyl
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Rhyl If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Rhyl
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Rhyl Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Rhyl
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Rhyl Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Rhyl
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Rhyl Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Rhyl
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Rhyl "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Rhyl
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Rhyl If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Rhyl
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Rhyl Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Rhyl
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Rhyl Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Rhyl
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 Rhyl Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Rhyl
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Rhyl When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Rhyl
