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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Portlaoise The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Portlaoise
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Portlaoise A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Portlaoise
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Portlaoise When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Portlaoise
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Portlaoise You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Portlaoise
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Portlaoise Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Portlaoise
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Portlaoise "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Portlaoise
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Portlaoise Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Portlaoise
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Portlaoise There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Portlaoise
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Portlaoise "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Portlaoise
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Portlaoise "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Portlaoise
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Portlaoise blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Portlaoise
