Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Hirwaun "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Hirwaun
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Hirwaun Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Hirwaun
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Hirwaun You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hirwaun
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Hirwaun "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hirwaun
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hirwaun To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hirwaun
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Hirwaun It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Hirwaun
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Hirwaun A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Hirwaun
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Hirwaun "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Hirwaun
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Hirwaun "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Hirwaun
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Hirwaun Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Hirwaun
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Hirwaun "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Hirwaun
