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Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Mount Merrion Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Mount Merrion
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Mount Merrion "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mount Merrion
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Mount Merrion Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Mount Merrion
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Mount Merrion "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) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Mount Merrion
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Mount Merrion Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mount Merrion
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Mount Merrion A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Mount Merrion
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Mount Merrion Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Mount Merrion
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Mount Merrion The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Mount Merrion
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Mount Merrion My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Mount Merrion
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Mount Merrion "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Mount Merrion
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Mount Merrion Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Mount Merrion
