I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Crickhowell Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Crickhowell
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Crickhowell An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Crickhowell
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Crickhowell A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Crickhowell
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Crickhowell "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Crickhowell
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Crickhowell Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Crickhowell
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Crickhowell ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Crickhowell
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Crickhowell "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Crickhowell
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Crickhowell My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Crickhowell
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Crickhowell I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crickhowell
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Crickhowell Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Crickhowell
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Crickhowell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crickhowell
