Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Ballyvourny Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Ballyvourny
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Ballyvourny Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Ballyvourny
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (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) Ballyvourny There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Ballyvourny
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Ballyvourny "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Ballyvourny
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Ballyvourny I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Ballyvourny
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Ballyvourny "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Ballyvourny
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Ballyvourny "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Ballyvourny
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "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." Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Ballyvourny "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 live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Ballyvourny
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ballyvourny "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Ballyvourny
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Ballyvourny Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Ballyvourny
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ballyvourny "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Ballyvourny
