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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Glencullen Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Glencullen
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Glencullen The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Glencullen
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 Glencullen Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Glencullen
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Glencullen The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Glencullen
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Glencullen I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Glencullen
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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." ( I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Glencullen A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Glencullen
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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Glencullen I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Glencullen
"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) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan May you never leave your marriage alive. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Glencullen "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Glencullen
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Glencullen When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Glencullen
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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Glencullen The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Glencullen
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Glencullen Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Glencullen
