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"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "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) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Pontypridd If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Pontypridd
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Pontypridd Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Pontypridd
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Pontypridd Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "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 Pontypridd
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Pontypridd Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Pontypridd
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Pontypridd Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Pontypridd
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Pontypridd "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Pontypridd
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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 Pontypridd A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 Pontypridd "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Pontypridd
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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Pontypridd The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Pontypridd
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Pontypridd Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Pontypridd
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Pontypridd The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Pontypridd
