"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Abergavenny We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Abergavenny
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Abergavenny If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Abergavenny
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Abergavenny "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Abergavenny
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Abergavenny Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Abergavenny
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Abergavenny "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Abergavenny
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Abergavenny When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Abergavenny
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Abergavenny Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Abergavenny
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Abergavenny When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Abergavenny
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Abergavenny "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Abergavenny
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Abergavenny The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Abergavenny
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Abergavenny He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Abergavenny
