Haverfordwest Film Society - Includes programme, links, contact information, and admission rates. Operates from the Merlin Theatre, Pembrokeshire College.
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Haverfordwest There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Haverfordwest
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Haverfordwest I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Haverfordwest
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Haverfordwest Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Haverfordwest
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Haverfordwest Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Haverfordwest
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Haverfordwest The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Haverfordwest
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Haverfordwest Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Haverfordwest
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Haverfordwest Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Haverfordwest
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Haverfordwest The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Haverfordwest
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Haverfordwest When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Haverfordwest
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Haverfordwest What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Haverfordwest 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,
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Haverfordwest
