Chronicle Newspapers - Weekly newspapers including Flintshire editions of The Chronicle.
Marcher Gold - Commercial AM radio station covering Flintshire, Wrexham and Cheshire. Sister station of MFM.
Flintshire Standard - Newspaper covering the county of Flintshire. Headlines updated each weekday.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin News and Media "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman News and Media
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Man and wife make one fool. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl News and Media 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,
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) News and Media
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous News and Media "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) News and Media
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "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) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous News and Media The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) News and Media 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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash News and Media
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara News and Media There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid News and Media
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain News and Media In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. News and Media
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 News and Media Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) News and Media
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man News and Media All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing News and Media
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec News and Media Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 News and Media "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. News and Media
