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What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Drimnagh If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Drimnagh
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Drimnagh You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Drimnagh
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Drimnagh "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Drimnagh
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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 Drimnagh Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky 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 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Drimnagh
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Drimnagh 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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Drimnagh
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Drimnagh "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Drimnagh
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Drimnagh Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Drimnagh
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Drimnagh Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Drimnagh
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Drimnagh My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Drimnagh
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Drimnagh To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Drimnagh
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the 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 Drimnagh "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Drimnagh
