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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 Athenry A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Athenry
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Athenry Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Athenry
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Athenry I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Athenry
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Athenry In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Athenry
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Athenry Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Athenry
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Athenry Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Athenry
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Athenry "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Athenry
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Athenry A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Athenry
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Athenry "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Athenry
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Athenry ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Athenry
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Athenry The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Athenry
