blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Llantrithyd Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Llantrithyd I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Llantrithyd
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Llantrithyd Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Llantrithyd
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Llantrithyd In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Llantrithyd
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Llantrithyd There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Llantrithyd
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Llantrithyd Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Llantrithyd
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Llantrithyd Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Llantrithyd
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Llantrithyd War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton 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 Llantrithyd
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Llantrithyd If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Llantrithyd
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llantrithyd "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Llantrithyd
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Llantrithyd "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Llantrithyd
