In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Killiney Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Killiney
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Killiney "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Killiney
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Killiney blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Killiney
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Killiney What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "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." Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Killiney
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Killiney Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Killiney
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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Killiney "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Killiney
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Killiney Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Killiney
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Killiney Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Killiney
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Killiney We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Killiney
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Killiney "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Killiney
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Killiney Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Killiney
