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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Builth Wells If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Builth Wells
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Builth Wells "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Builth Wells
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "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) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Builth Wells See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Builth Wells
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Builth Wells The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Builth Wells
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Builth Wells It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Builth Wells
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Builth Wells "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Builth Wells
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Builth Wells Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Builth Wells
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Builth Wells The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Builth Wells
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Builth Wells It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Builth Wells
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Builth Wells Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Builth Wells
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Builth Wells The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Builth Wells
