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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Vale of Glamorgan Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Vale of Glamorgan
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Vale of Glamorgan "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Vale of Glamorgan
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) 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 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Vale of Glamorgan blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Vale of Glamorgan
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vale of Glamorgan "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Vale of Glamorgan
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Vale of Glamorgan "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Vale of Glamorgan
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vale of Glamorgan I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Vale of Glamorgan
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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Vale of Glamorgan "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Vale of Glamorgan
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Vale of Glamorgan A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Vale of Glamorgan
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Vale of Glamorgan Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Vale of Glamorgan
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Vale of Glamorgan All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Vale of Glamorgan
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Vale of Glamorgan I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Vale of Glamorgan
