If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Celtic Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 Celtic
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Celtic There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Celtic
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 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Celtic Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Celtic
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Celtic History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Celtic
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Celtic A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "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) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Celtic
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Celtic Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Celtic
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Celtic If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Celtic
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Celtic Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "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) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Celtic
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Celtic 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 "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'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Celtic
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Celtic History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "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 Celtic
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Celtic It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Celtic
