If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Galway Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "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) 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 Galway
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Galway One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Galway
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Galway "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Galway
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Galway If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Galway
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Galway Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Galway
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Galway I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Galway
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Galway "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Galway
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Galway Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Galway
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Galway "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Galway
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Galway It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Galway
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "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." Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Galway I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Galway
