Duchas: Tullaherin Heritage Society - Aims to research and record the wealth of history and folklore of the Tullaherin area of County Kilkenny. Produces a bi-annual journal: contents listed online.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Society and Culture
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Society and Culture The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Society and Culture
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Society and Culture
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Society and Culture
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Society and Culture "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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