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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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couldn't cha "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Leaving Certificate I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Leaving Certificate
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Leaving Certificate Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Leaving Certificate
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 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Leaving Certificate "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) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Leaving Certificate
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Leaving Certificate People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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of grac If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Leaving Certificate Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Leaving Certificate
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Leaving Certificate Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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marvelous str They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Leaving Certificate Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Leaving Certificate
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Leaving Certificate "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Leaving Certificate
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Leaving Certificate "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Leaving Certificate
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Leaving Certificate "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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-- Nikki Giovanni Leaving Certificate
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Leaving Certificate I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Leaving Certificate
