If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. St Asaph "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe St Asaph
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett St Asaph Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "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 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) St Asaph
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) St Asaph "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey St Asaph
"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 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling St Asaph If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 St Asaph
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner St Asaph It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) St Asaph
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 St Asaph In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer St Asaph
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 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford 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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder St Asaph Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns St Asaph
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) St Asaph I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) St Asaph
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) St Asaph "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) St Asaph
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw St Asaph "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead St Asaph
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "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 St Asaph The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper St Asaph
