Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Llanfechain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Llanfechain
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Llanfechain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Llanfechain
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Llanfechain A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Llanfechain
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Llanfechain Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Llanfechain
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "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 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Llanfechain What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Llanfechain
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Llanfechain Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Llanfechain
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Llanfechain "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Llanfechain
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Llanfechain "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Llanfechain
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llanfechain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Llanfechain
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Llanfechain "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Llanfechain
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Llanfechain My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Llanfechain
