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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Rathfarnham "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Rathfarnham
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Rathfarnham My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Rathfarnham
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "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." Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Rathfarnham There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Rathfarnham
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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) "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Rathfarnham "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rathfarnham
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Rathfarnham "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Rathfarnham
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Rathfarnham Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Rathfarnham
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Rathfarnham "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Rathfarnham
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Rathfarnham Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Rathfarnham
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Rathfarnham "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Rathfarnham
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Rathfarnham A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Rathfarnham
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Rathfarnham I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Rathfarnham
