Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 Kilmainham Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Kilmainham
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Kilmainham Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Kilmainham
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kilmainham "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Kilmainham
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Kilmainham To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Kilmainham
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "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..." ( "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Kilmainham Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Kilmainham
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Kilmainham It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Kilmainham
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Kilmainham When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kilmainham
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Kilmainham My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kilmainham
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Kilmainham Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Kilmainham
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Kilmainham Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Kilmainham
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Kilmainham Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Kilmainham
