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You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Northern Ireland Policy Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Northern Ireland Policy
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Northern Ireland Policy To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Northern Ireland Policy
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Northern Ireland Policy The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Northern Ireland Policy
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Northern Ireland Policy Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Northern Ireland Policy
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Northern Ireland Policy "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Northern Ireland Policy
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Northern Ireland Policy Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Northern Ireland Policy
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Northern Ireland Policy Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Northern Ireland Policy
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Northern Ireland Policy Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Northern Ireland Policy You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Northern Ireland Policy
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Northern Ireland Policy "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Northern Ireland Policy
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Northern Ireland Policy The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Northern Ireland Policy
