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"Think off-center." (George Carlin) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Crossmolina It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Crossmolina
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Crossmolina "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Crossmolina
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Crossmolina The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Crossmolina
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Crossmolina A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Crossmolina
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "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) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Crossmolina Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Crossmolina
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Crossmolina When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Crossmolina
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Crossmolina Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Crossmolina
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Crossmolina When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Crossmolina
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Crossmolina You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Crossmolina
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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Crossmolina I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Crossmolina
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Crossmolina Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Crossmolina
