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Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Rhondda Cynon Taff Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Rhondda Cynon Taff
"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) "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." 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Rhondda Cynon Taff Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Rhondda Cynon Taff
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 Rhondda Cynon Taff Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Rhondda Cynon Taff
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Rhondda Cynon Taff The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Rhondda Cynon Taff
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Rhondda Cynon Taff "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Rhondda Cynon Taff
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Rhondda Cynon Taff Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Rhondda Cynon Taff
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Rhondda Cynon Taff Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Rhondda Cynon Taff
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Rhondda Cynon Taff "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Rhondda Cynon Taff
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 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Rhondda Cynon Taff You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Rhondda Cynon Taff
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Rhondda Cynon Taff "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Rhondda Cynon Taff "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Rhondda Cynon Taff
