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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "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) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dolgellau A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Dolgellau
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 regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Dolgellau Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dolgellau
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Dolgellau I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dolgellau
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Man and wife make one fool. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Dolgellau Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Dolgellau
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Dolgellau The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Dolgellau
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Dolgellau Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Dolgellau
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dolgellau "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Dolgellau
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Dolgellau In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Dolgellau
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Dolgellau The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Dolgellau
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Dolgellau "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Dolgellau
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Dolgellau I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Dolgellau
