In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Carlow Town The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Carlow Town
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Carlow Town A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Carlow Town
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Carlow Town Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 Carlow Town
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Carlow Town "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Carlow Town
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 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Carlow Town Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "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) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Carlow Town
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Carlow Town A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Carlow Town
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Carlow Town The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Carlow Town
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Carlow Town "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Carlow Town
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Carlow Town "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Carlow Town
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Carlow Town The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Carlow Town
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Carlow Town "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Carlow Town
