The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Monkstown An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Monkstown
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Monkstown You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Monkstown
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Monkstown When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Monkstown
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Monkstown To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Monkstown
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Man and wife make one fool. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Monkstown Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Monkstown
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Monkstown It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Monkstown
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Monkstown If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Monkstown
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Monkstown A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Monkstown
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Monkstown For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Monkstown
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Monkstown "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Monkstown
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monkstown If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Monkstown
