Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Ystradowen A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Ystradowen
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ystradowen The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ystradowen
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Ystradowen Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Ystradowen
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ystradowen "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ystradowen
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "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) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Ystradowen Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Ystradowen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ystradowen "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Ystradowen
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Ystradowen You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Ystradowen
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Ystradowen "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Ystradowen
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Ystradowen The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Ystradowen
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Ystradowen "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Ystradowen
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Ystradowen I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Ystradowen
