Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Pontyclun He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pontyclun
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Pontyclun When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Pontyclun
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Pontyclun "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Pontyclun
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Pontyclun "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Pontyclun
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Pontyclun To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide 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 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pontyclun
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Pontyclun "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) 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.
-- Crowf All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Pontyclun
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Pontyclun "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Pontyclun
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Pontyclun Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Pontyclun
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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Pontyclun Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Pontyclun
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Pontyclun Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Pontyclun
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Pontyclun Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Pontyclun
