"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans 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 Kinsale If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Kinsale
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Kinsale Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Kinsale
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kinsale The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Kinsale
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Kinsale "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Kinsale
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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.
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Kinsale A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Kinsale
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Kinsale A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Kinsale
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Kinsale blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Kinsale
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Kinsale Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves 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 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Kinsale
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Kinsale The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Kinsale
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Kinsale There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Kinsale
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kinsale Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Kinsale
