Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Ystradgynlais The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Ystradgynlais
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Ystradgynlais It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ystradgynlais
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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 Ystradgynlais I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Ystradgynlais
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ystradgynlais "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Ystradgynlais
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Ystradgynlais There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ystradgynlais
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Ystradgynlais blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Ystradgynlais
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Ystradgynlais What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Ystradgynlais
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Ystradgynlais We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Ystradgynlais
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ystradgynlais "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 Ystradgynlais
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Ystradgynlais When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Ystradgynlais
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Ystradgynlais your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Ystradgynlais
