It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Kilkenny City "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Kilkenny City
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilkenny City "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Kilkenny City
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Kilkenny City "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Kilkenny City
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Kilkenny City Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Kilkenny City
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Kilkenny City When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 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 Kilkenny City
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Kilkenny City Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Kilkenny City
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Kilkenny City "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Kilkenny City
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Kilkenny City I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Kilkenny City
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 City No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilkenny City
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Kilkenny City Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Kilkenny City
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Kilkenny City If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Kilkenny City
