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Clonony Castle - Castle with connections to Ann Boleyn and her family which was built around 1500. It is presently being restored.
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 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Society and Culture Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Society and Culture
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Society and Culture "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "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) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 Society and Culture
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Society and Culture "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Society and Culture
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "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) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Society and Culture blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Society and Culture
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Society and Culture
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 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 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
