I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Clonshaugh Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Clonshaugh
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Clonshaugh How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Clonshaugh
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 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Clonshaugh "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Clonshaugh
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Clonshaugh "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Clonshaugh
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Clonshaugh No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Clonshaugh
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Clonshaugh Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Clonshaugh
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "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) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 Clonshaugh Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Clonshaugh
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Clonshaugh Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Clonshaugh
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Clonshaugh She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Clonshaugh
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Clonshaugh Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Clonshaugh
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Clonshaugh The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Clonshaugh
