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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Barmouth Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Barmouth
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Barmouth Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Barmouth
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "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) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Barmouth Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "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) Barmouth
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Barmouth "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Barmouth
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Barmouth Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Barmouth
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Barmouth "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Barmouth
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Barmouth The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Barmouth
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Barmouth Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Barmouth
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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Barmouth Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "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) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Barmouth
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Barmouth If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Barmouth
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "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) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Barmouth "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) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Barmouth
