Grange Castle - An Irish 15th-century tower house. Photograph, history and information on its proposed restoration.
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Carbury blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Carbury
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Carbury "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Carbury
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Carbury A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Carbury
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Carbury To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Carbury
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Carbury Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Carbury
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Carbury "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Carbury
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Carbury "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Carbury
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Carbury When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Carbury
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Carbury "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Carbury
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Carbury "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Carbury
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Carbury Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen 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 Carbury
