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"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Leitrim Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Leitrim
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "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 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Leitrim God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Leitrim
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Leitrim How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Leitrim
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Leitrim In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Leitrim
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 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Leitrim Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Leitrim
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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "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 love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Leitrim If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Leitrim
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Leitrim Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Leitrim
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Leitrim The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Leitrim
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Leitrim Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Leitrim
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "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) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Leitrim I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Leitrim
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Leitrim "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Leitrim
