I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brecon "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Brecon
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Brecon "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) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Brecon
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Brecon "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Brecon
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Brecon Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Brecon
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Brecon Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Brecon
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Brecon Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Brecon
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Brecon Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Brecon
"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) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Brecon Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Brecon
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Brecon "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Brecon
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Brecon "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Brecon
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 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 "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 Brecon Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Brecon
