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Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "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) Monaghan Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Monaghan
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Monaghan Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Monaghan
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Monaghan Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Monaghan
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Monaghan Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Monaghan
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed 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 meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Monaghan Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Monaghan
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Monaghan Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Monaghan
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Monaghan "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Monaghan
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein 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 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 Monaghan I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Monaghan
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Monaghan I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Monaghan
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Monaghan "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Monaghan
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Monaghan Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Monaghan
