"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." With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Kilnamanagh At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Kilnamanagh
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Kilnamanagh "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Kilnamanagh
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Kilnamanagh Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Kilnamanagh
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kilnamanagh Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Kilnamanagh
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Kilnamanagh Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Kilnamanagh
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Kilnamanagh Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "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 Kilnamanagh
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Kilnamanagh The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Kilnamanagh
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Kilnamanagh "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) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Kilnamanagh
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Kilnamanagh Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Kilnamanagh
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Kilnamanagh I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Kilnamanagh
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Kilnamanagh It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilnamanagh
