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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Clondalkin The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Clondalkin
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Clondalkin "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Clondalkin
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Clondalkin "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Clondalkin
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clondalkin "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Clondalkin
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Clondalkin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Clondalkin
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Clondalkin It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Clondalkin
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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, He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Clondalkin The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Clondalkin
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "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) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Clondalkin I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Clondalkin
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Clondalkin We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Clondalkin
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Clondalkin A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Clondalkin
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Clondalkin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Clondalkin
