Kerry Education Service - Create and promote the development of a learning society in Kerry.
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Education "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Education In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Education
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Education Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Education
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Education
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Education blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Education Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "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) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Education
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Education "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Education You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Education
