I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 Talgarth Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Talgarth
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Talgarth "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Talgarth
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Talgarth Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Talgarth
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Talgarth The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Talgarth
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Talgarth Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Talgarth
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Talgarth "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Talgarth
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Talgarth The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Talgarth
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Talgarth A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Talgarth
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "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) Talgarth "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talgarth
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Talgarth There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Talgarth
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Talgarth I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Talgarth
