"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Ballyfermot "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Ballyfermot
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Ballyfermot We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Ballyfermot
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Ballyfermot Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Ballyfermot
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ballyfermot "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Ballyfermot
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Ballyfermot People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Ballyfermot
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Ballyfermot If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Ballyfermot
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Ballyfermot To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart 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 Ballyfermot
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Ballyfermot "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Ballyfermot
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Ballyfermot The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Ballyfermot
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Ballyfermot "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ballyfermot
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Ballyfermot It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Ballyfermot
