The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Kildare Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Kildare
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kildare If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Kildare
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Kildare "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Kildare
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Kildare The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Kildare
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kildare Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Kildare
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Kildare Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Kildare
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Kildare If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Kildare
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Kildare Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Kildare
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Kildare If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Kildare
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Kildare But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Kildare
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Kildare A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Kildare
