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I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Buncrana Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Buncrana
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Buncrana Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Buncrana
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Buncrana The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Buncrana
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Buncrana To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Buncrana
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Buncrana "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Buncrana
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Buncrana Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Buncrana
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Buncrana 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) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Buncrana
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Buncrana "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Buncrana
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Buncrana "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Buncrana
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Buncrana If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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,
Buncrana
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Buncrana 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Buncrana
