Downes Brothers - Patricia Downes account of the Downes brothers who were transported to Australia and her search for the family they left behind in County Clare.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Genealogy I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Genealogy
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Genealogy "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Genealogy
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Genealogy In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Genealogy
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Genealogy "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
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-- Woodrow Wyatt Genealogy I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Genealogy
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Genealogy The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Genealogy
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Genealogy 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.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Genealogy
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Genealogy The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Genealogy
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Genealogy Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Genealogy A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Genealogy
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Genealogy Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Genealogy
