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We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Maentwrog The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Maentwrog
"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) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Maentwrog Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maentwrog
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Maentwrog Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Maentwrog
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Maentwrog The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Maentwrog
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maentwrog Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Maentwrog
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Maentwrog When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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,
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Maentwrog
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Maentwrog Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Maentwrog
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Maentwrog Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Maentwrog
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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Maentwrog "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Maentwrog
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "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) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Maentwrog "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Maentwrog
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Maentwrog All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Maentwrog
