Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Aberffraw "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Aberffraw
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Aberffraw No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Aberffraw
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Aberffraw An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Aberffraw
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Aberffraw Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Aberffraw
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Aberffraw The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Aberffraw
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Aberffraw I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Aberffraw
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Aberffraw 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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Aberffraw
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Aberffraw War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Aberffraw
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Aberffraw The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Aberffraw
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Aberffraw 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Aberffraw The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Aberffraw
