Preseli Pembrokeshire - News and events from Plaid Cymru's Presili branch. In English/Cymraeg.
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"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha May you never leave your marriage alive. Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo My other wife is beautiful. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
