The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Carrickmacross I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Carrickmacross
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Carrickmacross "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Carrickmacross
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Carrickmacross All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Carrickmacross
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Carrickmacross The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Carrickmacross
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carrickmacross The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Carrickmacross
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Carrickmacross blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Carrickmacross
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Carrickmacross Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Carrickmacross
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carrickmacross "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Carrickmacross
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Carrickmacross I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Carrickmacross
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Carrickmacross "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Carrickmacross
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Carrickmacross Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Carrickmacross
