Victorian Pontypridd - Extracts from the book Victorian Pontypridd, which describe a market day in 19th century Pontypridd.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Society and Culture
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Society and Culture
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Society and Culture If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau May you never leave your marriage alive. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society and Culture
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Society and Culture "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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) Society and Culture
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Society and Culture
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Society and Culture
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Society and Culture
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Society and Culture
