"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Kilcrohane 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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilcrohane
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Kilcrohane 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) 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Kilcrohane
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Kilcrohane "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Kilcrohane
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Kilcrohane "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Kilcrohane
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Kilcrohane "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kilcrohane
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Kilcrohane Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Kilcrohane
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Kilcrohane No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Kilcrohane
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Kilcrohane Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Kilcrohane
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Kilcrohane No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Kilcrohane
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Kilcrohane You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Kilcrohane
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Kilcrohane He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Kilcrohane
