The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cabinteely For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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-- Ben Hecht "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Cabinteely
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Cabinteely "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana 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
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"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Cabinteely In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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computer that th Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Cabinteely
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Cabinteely Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Cabinteely
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Cabinteely Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Cabinteely
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Cabinteely We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Cabinteely
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Cabinteely "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Cabinteely
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Cabinteely Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Cabinteely
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Cabinteely More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Cabinteely
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Cabinteely The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Cabinteely
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Cabinteely "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Cabinteely
