Aberdovey - Information for tourists and residents.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Aberdovey I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Aberdovey
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Aberdovey After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Aberdovey
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "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) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Aberdovey I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Aberdovey
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Aberdovey Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Aberdovey
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 Aberdovey Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Aberdovey
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Aberdovey Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Aberdovey
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Aberdovey It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Aberdovey
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Aberdovey People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Aberdovey
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Aberdovey The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Aberdovey
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Aberdovey Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Aberdovey
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Aberdovey Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Aberdovey
