I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Letterkenny Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Letterkenny
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Letterkenny I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Letterkenny
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Letterkenny Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Letterkenny
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Letterkenny The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Letterkenny
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Letterkenny Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Letterkenny
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Letterkenny If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Letterkenny
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Letterkenny Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Letterkenny
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Letterkenny The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Letterkenny
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Letterkenny Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Letterkenny
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Letterkenny Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Letterkenny
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Letterkenny Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Letterkenny
