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Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Ballymoe Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Ballymoe
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Ballymoe I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Ballymoe
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Ballymoe A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Ballymoe
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ballymoe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Ballymoe
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballymoe Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ballymoe
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Ballymoe "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Ballymoe
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Ballymoe Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Ballymoe
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Ballymoe Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ballymoe
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Ballymoe Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Ballymoe
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Ballymoe There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ballymoe
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Ballymoe Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Ballymoe
