"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Leopardstown I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Leopardstown
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Leopardstown "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Leopardstown
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Leopardstown Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Leopardstown
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Leopardstown 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 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Leopardstown
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Leopardstown The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Leopardstown
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Leopardstown If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 Leopardstown
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Leopardstown Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Leopardstown
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Leopardstown Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Leopardstown
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "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) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Leopardstown "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Leopardstown
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Leopardstown Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Leopardstown
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Leopardstown "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Leopardstown
