In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Llanwrtyd Wells 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Llanwrtyd Wells
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Llanwrtyd Wells In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Llanwrtyd Wells
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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Llanwrtyd Wells I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Llanwrtyd Wells "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Llanwrtyd Wells
"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 only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Llanwrtyd Wells Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Llanwrtyd Wells
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Llanwrtyd Wells Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Llanwrtyd Wells
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Llanwrtyd Wells It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Llanwrtyd Wells
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "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) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Llanwrtyd Wells We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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
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"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Llanwrtyd Wells Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Llanwrtyd Wells
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Llanwrtyd Wells "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Llanwrtyd Wells
"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) 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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Llanwrtyd Wells No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac What's new? Most of my wife. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Llanwrtyd Wells
