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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Dungloe There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Dungloe
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Dungloe We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Dungloe
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Dungloe Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Dungloe We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "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) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Dungloe
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Dungloe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dungloe
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Dungloe Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 a Dungloe
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Dungloe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Dungloe
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Dungloe "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Dungloe
"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) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Dungloe We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Dungloe
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Dungloe "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Dungloe
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 Dungloe Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Dungloe
