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Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ballinteer In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Ballinteer
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ballinteer Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Ballinteer
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Ballinteer "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Ballinteer
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Ballinteer Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Ballinteer
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Ballinteer The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Ballinteer
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Ballinteer Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 Ballinteer
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Ballinteer If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Ballinteer
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Ballinteer The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Ballinteer
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Ballinteer In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Ballinteer
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Ballinteer When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Ballinteer
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Ballinteer "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Ballinteer
