Wales Legislation - Legislation and Statutory Instruments enacted by the Welsh Assembly.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Legal System I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Legal System
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Legal System Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Legal System
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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.
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Legal System "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Legal System
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Legal System "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Legal System
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Legal System He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Legal System
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Legal System When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Legal System
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Legal System "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "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) Legal System
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Legal System Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legal System
"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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Legal System Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Legal System
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "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 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Legal System We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Legal System
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Legal System It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Legal System
