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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Kilkenny I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" 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 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Kilkenny
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Kilkenny It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Kilkenny
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Kilkenny Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Kilkenny
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Kilkenny "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Kilkenny
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Kilkenny "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Kilkenny
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Kilkenny When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 Kilkenny
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Kilkenny Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Kilkenny
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Kilkenny Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Kilkenny
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Kilkenny Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach ... 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
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Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Kilkenny My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Kilkenny
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Kilkenny 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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Kilkenny
