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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Dublin City "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Dublin City
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Dublin City Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Dublin City
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Dublin City The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Dublin City
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Dublin City "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Dublin City
"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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Dublin City "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Dublin City
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Dublin City I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Dublin City
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Dublin City Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Dublin City
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Dublin City I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "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 Dublin City
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Dublin City If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Dublin City
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Dublin City "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Dublin City
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Dublin City Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Dublin City
