Tegryn Village - A small village in the Preseli hills, the village is built on the upper slopes of Frenni Fawr, the 3rd highest peak in the range.
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Tegryn A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Tegryn
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Tegryn A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Tegryn
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Tegryn The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Tegryn
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "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' With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tegryn It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Tegryn
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "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) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Tegryn Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Tegryn
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Tegryn To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "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 Tegryn
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Tegryn It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Tegryn
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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,
assess randomi "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Tegryn "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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Tegryn
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Tegryn Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Tegryn
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Tegryn The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tegryn
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Tegryn It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tegryn
