The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ballybrack For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Ballybrack
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Ballybrack "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ballybrack
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Ballybrack I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ballybrack
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Ballybrack Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Ballybrack
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Ballybrack "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Ballybrack
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Ballybrack It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Ballybrack
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Ballybrack All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Ballybrack
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Ballybrack There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Ballybrack
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Ballybrack The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Ballybrack
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Ballybrack Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Ballybrack
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ballybrack The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Ballybrack
