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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Kilmacud A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 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
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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Kilmacud "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kilmacud
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Kilmacud The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Kilmacud
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Kilmacud I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Kilmacud Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilmacud
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Kilmacud "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Kilmacud
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "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) Kilmacud "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) 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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Kilmacud
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Kilmacud Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Kilmacud
"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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Kilmacud Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Kilmacud
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Kilmacud Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Kilmacud
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Kilmacud Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Kilmacud
