Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Carrigadrohid Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Carrigadrohid
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Carrigadrohid Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Carrigadrohid
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Carrigadrohid We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Carrigadrohid
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Carrigadrohid "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Carrigadrohid
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Carrigadrohid In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Carrigadrohid
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Carrigadrohid "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Carrigadrohid
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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Carrigadrohid 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Carrigadrohid
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Carrigadrohid The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Carrigadrohid
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Carrigadrohid The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Carrigadrohid
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Carrigadrohid blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Carrigadrohid
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Carrigadrohid Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Carrigadrohid
