"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Rhayader I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Rhayader
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Rhayader See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Rhayader
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Rhayader Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Rhayader
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Rhayader Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Rhayader
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Rhayader Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Rhayader
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Rhayader The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Rhayader
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Rhayader Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "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) Rhayader
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Rhayader The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Rhayader
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Rhayader If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Rhayader
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Rhayader Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Rhayader
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Rhayader There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Rhayader
