Usk Rural Life Museum - A collection of agricultural artifacts portraying life in the Welsh borders between 1850 and 1945.
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Travel and Tourism
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Travel and Tourism The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Travel and Tourism
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Travel and Tourism
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Travel and Tourism
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Travel and Tourism The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Travel and Tourism
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Travel and Tourism
"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) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
"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) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Travel and Tourism Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism
