I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Abercynon "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Abercynon
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Abercynon The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Abercynon
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein 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
sea They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Abercynon It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Abercynon
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Abercynon We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Abercynon
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "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 Abercynon There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Abercynon
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Abercynon Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Abercynon
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Abercynon Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Abercynon
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Abercynon Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Abercynon
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo May you never leave your marriage alive. 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Abercynon The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Abercynon
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Abercynon "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Abercynon
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Abercynon The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Abercynon
