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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Llantrisant Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Llantrisant
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Llantrisant Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Llantrisant
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Llantrisant All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Llantrisant
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Llantrisant Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Llantrisant
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Llantrisant He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Llantrisant
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Llantrisant By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Llantrisant
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Llantrisant America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 Llantrisant
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Llantrisant The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Llantrisant
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand 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 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Llantrisant I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llantrisant
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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 Llantrisant There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Llantrisant
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Llantrisant Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "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 Llantrisant
