Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Inagh "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Inagh
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Inagh He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Inagh
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Inagh "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) 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 lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Inagh
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Inagh "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Inagh
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Inagh Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Inagh
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Inagh One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Inagh
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Inagh Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Inagh
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Inagh When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Inagh
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Inagh Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Inagh
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Inagh Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Inagh
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight 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 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Inagh "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Inagh
