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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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Bangor Erris Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Bangor Erris
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Bangor Erris 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Bangor Erris
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Bangor Erris Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Bangor Erris
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Bangor Erris "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Bangor Erris
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 Bangor Erris If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Bangor Erris
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Bangor Erris A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Bangor Erris
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton 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 Bangor Erris Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Bangor Erris
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Bangor Erris When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Bangor Erris
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Bangor Erris "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Bangor Erris
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Bangor Erris When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Bangor Erris
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Bangor Erris The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Bangor Erris
