Kilmihil - General information about the community of Kilmihil.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "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) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Kilmihil I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Kilmihil
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Kilmihil You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Kilmihil
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Kilmihil I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Kilmihil
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Kilmihil I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Kilmihil
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Kilmihil Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Kilmihil
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Kilmihil 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Kilmihil
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kilmihil Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Kilmihil
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Kilmihil It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Kilmihil
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Kilmihil Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Kilmihil
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Kilmihil Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Kilmihil
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Kilmihil Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Kilmihil
