Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Carndonagh When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Carndonagh
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Carndonagh "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Carndonagh
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Carndonagh The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Carndonagh
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Carndonagh "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Carndonagh
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Carndonagh CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Carndonagh
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Carndonagh May you never leave your marriage alive. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Carndonagh
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Carndonagh Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Carndonagh
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Carndonagh I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Carndonagh
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carndonagh The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Carndonagh
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Carndonagh Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Carndonagh
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Carndonagh The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Carndonagh
