"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Bunratty Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) 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 Bunratty
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bunratty Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Bunratty
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bunratty He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Bunratty
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Bunratty Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Bunratty
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Bunratty My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Bunratty
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Bunratty "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Bunratty
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bunratty In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Bunratty
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "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) Bunratty Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Bunratty
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bunratty Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bunratty
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bunratty Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Bunratty
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Bunratty Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bunratty
