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"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Ballyroan A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ballyroan
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Ballyroan I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Ballyroan
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Ballyroan Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Ballyroan
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 "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 Ballyroan Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Ballyroan
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Ballyroan A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ballyroan
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Ballyroan The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Ballyroan
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Ballyroan When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Ballyroan
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Ballyroan "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ballyroan
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Ballyroan What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Ballyroan
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Ballyroan "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Ballyroan
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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Ballyroan More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Ballyroan
