V Wales - Folklore - Online texts of "The Mabinogion", W. Jenkyn Thomas' 1907 "Welsh Fairy Stories", and the complete works of Marie Trevelyan.
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Folklore Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 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 Folklore
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Folklore Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Folklore
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "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) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Folklore "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Folklore
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Folklore He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Folklore
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Folklore The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Folklore
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Folklore Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Folklore
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Folklore Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Folklore
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Folklore Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Folklore
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Folklore Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Folklore
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 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 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Folklore I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Folklore
"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) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a 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 Folklore What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Folklore
