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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Dale Carnegie "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South Dublin "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe South Dublin
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H "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) South Dublin "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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Uncl "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln South Dublin A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers South Dublin
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein South Dublin In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w South Dublin
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine South Dublin When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry South Dublin
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi South Dublin "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) South Dublin
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell South Dublin Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland South Dublin
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa South Dublin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost South Dublin
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) South Dublin Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth South Dublin
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers South Dublin 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous South Dublin
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West South Dublin Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) South Dublin
