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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Innishannon Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Innishannon
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Innishannon A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Innishannon
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Innishannon Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Innishannon
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Innishannon If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Innishannon
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Innishannon Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Innishannon
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Innishannon Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Innishannon
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Innishannon He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Innishannon
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Innishannon When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Innishannon
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Innishannon Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Innishannon
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Innishannon The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Innishannon
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Innishannon Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Innishannon
