"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Ballincollig By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Ballincollig
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Ballincollig There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson 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 Ballincollig
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Ballincollig 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 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Ballincollig
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Ballincollig I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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 Ballincollig
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Ballincollig your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Ballincollig
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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Ballincollig When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Ballincollig
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ballincollig "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Ballincollig
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Ballincollig By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Ballincollig
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Ballincollig If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Ballincollig
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Ballincollig An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ballincollig
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Ballincollig "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Ballincollig
