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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "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) Welsh Labour - Llafur Cymru
