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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Ballycotton "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Ballycotton
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Ballycotton Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ballycotton
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Ballycotton I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Ballycotton
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "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, Ballycotton A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Ballycotton
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Ballycotton If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ballycotton
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 Ballycotton Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Ballycotton
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Ballycotton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballycotton
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Ballycotton The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Ballycotton
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Ballycotton Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Ballycotton
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Ballycotton The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Ballycotton
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Ballycotton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ballycotton
