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Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Clontarf What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Clontarf
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Clontarf "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm Clontarf
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Clontarf There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Clontarf
"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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Clontarf Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Clontarf
"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) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Clontarf A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Clontarf
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Clontarf Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Clontarf
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Clontarf I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Clontarf
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Clontarf Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Clontarf
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Clontarf "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Clontarf
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Clontarf "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Clontarf
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Clontarf All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Clontarf
