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 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Donegal The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Donegal
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Donegal I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Donegal
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Donegal "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Donegal
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Donegal The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Donegal
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Donegal There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Donegal
"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) 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) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Donegal "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Donegal
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Donegal I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Donegal
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Donegal Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Donegal
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Donegal Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Donegal
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Donegal If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson May you never leave your marriage alive. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Donegal
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Donegal 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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Donegal
