Swansea and Gower Liberal Democrats - The official opposition in Swansea. Information about the Lib Dems in the Welsh Assembly, local council and at Westminster.
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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a May you never leave your marriage alive. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "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) Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Welsh Liberal Democrats - Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru