Cardiff Mardi Gras - Information on current and past celebrations, with photographs and event dates.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Events Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Events
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Events Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Events
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Events You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Events
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Events Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Events
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Events I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Events
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Events It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Events
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Events "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Events
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Events A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Events
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Events Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Events
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Events Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Events
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Events "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Events
