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-- Vince Lombardi "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Good friends are good for your health.
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Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Charlotte Whitton Kilgarvan 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 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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to that would be Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kilgarvan Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Kilgarvan Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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-- Anonymous The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Kilgarvan
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
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-- Hyman Rickover Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Kilgarvan We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Kilgarvan "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) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Kilgarvan
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Kilgarvan Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde Kilgarvan
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kilgarvan Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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-- Ovid You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Kilgarvan The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Kilgarvan
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Kilgarvan Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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