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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Tuamgraney Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Tuamgraney
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Tuamgraney While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Tuamgraney
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Tuamgraney In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Tuamgraney
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Tuamgraney The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Tuamgraney
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Tuamgraney We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Tuamgraney
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tuamgraney "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tuamgraney
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Tuamgraney A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Tuamgraney
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Tuamgraney "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Tuamgraney
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Tuamgraney In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Tuamgraney
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Tuamgraney The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Tuamgraney
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Tuamgraney Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tuamgraney
