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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Blarney "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Blarney
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Blarney Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Blarney
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Blarney No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Blarney
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Blarney There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Blarney
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 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 The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Blarney "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Blarney
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Blarney 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 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Blarney
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Blarney "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Blarney
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 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Blarney "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Blarney
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the 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 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Blarney 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 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Blarney The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Blarney
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Blarney There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Blarney
