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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Glasnevin Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Glasnevin
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) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "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) Glasnevin "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Glasnevin
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Glasnevin I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Glasnevin
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "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) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Glasnevin 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) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Glasnevin "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Glasnevin
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "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) Glasnevin The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Glasnevin
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Glasnevin The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Glasnevin
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Glasnevin "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Glasnevin
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker 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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Glasnevin Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Glasnevin
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) Glasnevin "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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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 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Glasnevin If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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