You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Pontygwaith Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Pontygwaith
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Pontygwaith My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Pontygwaith
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Pontygwaith I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Man and wife make one fool. Pontygwaith
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Pontygwaith "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Pontygwaith
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Pontygwaith I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Pontygwaith
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Pontygwaith A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (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 Pontygwaith
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Pontygwaith May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Pontygwaith
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pontygwaith And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Pontygwaith
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Pontygwaith I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Pontygwaith
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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Pontygwaith For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Pontygwaith
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Pontygwaith I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Pontygwaith
