My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Monkstown Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Monkstown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monkstown The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Monkstown
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Monkstown Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Monkstown
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Monkstown It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Monkstown
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Monkstown Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Monkstown
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Monkstown "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Monkstown
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 Monkstown I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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
Uncl I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Monkstown
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Monkstown The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Monkstown
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Monkstown "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Monkstown
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Monkstown The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Monkstown
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Monkstown Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Monkstown
