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"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Ballycoolin Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Ballycoolin
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Ballycoolin "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Ballycoolin
"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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Ballycoolin "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Ballycoolin
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger What's new? Most of my wife. Ballycoolin Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballycoolin
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Ballycoolin "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Ballycoolin
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Ballycoolin "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Ballycoolin
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Ballycoolin Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Ballycoolin
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Ballycoolin Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Ballycoolin
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Ballycoolin "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Ballycoolin
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Ballycoolin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballycoolin
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Ballycoolin The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Ballycoolin
