My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Merthyr Tydfil County Borough The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Merthyr Tydfil County Borough "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Merthyr Tydfil County Borough It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Merthyr Tydfil County Borough The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Merthyr Tydfil County Borough He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
"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) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Merthyr Tydfil County Borough I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
