Abbeylara - A community article about the village.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Abbeylara "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Abbeylara
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Abbeylara The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Abbeylara
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Abbeylara 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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Abbeylara
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 Abbeylara Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Abbeylara
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Abbeylara 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "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) Abbeylara
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Abbeylara "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Abbeylara
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Abbeylara The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Abbeylara
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Abbeylara Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Abbeylara
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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) Abbeylara Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Abbeylara
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-- Brendan Hills "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Abbeylara "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Abbeylara
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Abbeylara "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Abbeylara
