Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Llanfair Caereinion "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Llanfair Caereinion
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Llanfair Caereinion If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Llanfair Caereinion
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Llanfair Caereinion There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Llanfair Caereinion
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Llanfair Caereinion A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Llanfair Caereinion
"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-) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Llanfair Caereinion It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Llanfair Caereinion
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Llanfair Caereinion Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Llanfair Caereinion
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Llanfair Caereinion "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Llanfair Caereinion
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Llanfair Caereinion Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Llanfair Caereinion
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Llanfair Caereinion "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Llanfair Caereinion
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Llanfair Caereinion Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Llanfair Caereinion
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Llanfair Caereinion When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Llanfair Caereinion
