In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 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 Newmarket-on-Fergus The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Newmarket-on-Fergus
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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Newmarket-on-Fergus All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Newmarket-on-Fergus
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Newmarket-on-Fergus "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Newmarket-on-Fergus
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Newmarket-on-Fergus The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Newmarket-on-Fergus
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Newmarket-on-Fergus The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Newmarket-on-Fergus
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Newmarket-on-Fergus Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Newmarket-on-Fergus
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Newmarket-on-Fergus 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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Newmarket-on-Fergus
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Newmarket-on-Fergus We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Newmarket-on-Fergus
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Newmarket-on-Fergus There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Newmarket-on-Fergus
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Newmarket-on-Fergus May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Newmarket-on-Fergus
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Newmarket-on-Fergus Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Newmarket-on-Fergus
