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The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau 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 Ballybofey Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Ballybofey
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Ballybofey Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Ballybofey
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Ballybofey "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Ballybofey
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is a rest period between romances. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Ballybofey The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Ballybofey
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne 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. 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 Ballybofey You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Ballybofey
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Ballybofey Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Ballybofey
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ballybofey How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ballybofey
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Ballybofey Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Ballybofey
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "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) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Ballybofey No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Ballybofey
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Ballybofey Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Ballybofey
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Ballybofey "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Ballybofey
