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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Tralee Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Tralee
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Tralee Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Tralee
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Tralee "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) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Tralee
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Tralee To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Tralee
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Tralee Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Tralee
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Tralee Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "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) 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 Tralee
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Tralee I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Tralee
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Tralee I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Tralee
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Tralee "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Tralee
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Tralee "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Tralee
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Tralee The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Tralee
