"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Leighlinbridge Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Leighlinbridge
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "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) Leighlinbridge "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Leighlinbridge
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Leighlinbridge Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Leighlinbridge
"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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Leighlinbridge Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Leighlinbridge
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Leighlinbridge "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Leighlinbridge
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Leighlinbridge "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Leighlinbridge
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Leighlinbridge Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "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' "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Leighlinbridge
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Leighlinbridge I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Leighlinbridge
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Leighlinbridge "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Leighlinbridge
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Leighlinbridge If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Leighlinbridge
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Leighlinbridge Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Leighlinbridge
