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We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Ballydehob The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ballydehob
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Ballydehob 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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Ballydehob
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Ballydehob Man and wife make one fool. 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) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Ballydehob
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Ballydehob "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Ballydehob
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Ballydehob "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 Unhappy In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ballydehob
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Ballydehob Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Ballydehob
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ballydehob Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Ballydehob
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ballydehob Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Ballydehob
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "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 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Ballydehob He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous 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 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Ballydehob
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ballydehob Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Ballydehob
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Ballydehob Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Ballydehob
