The Island Trust - Offering help to the islanders of the islands of the Atlantic coast of Ireland especially concerning jobs and infrastructure development.
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Regions The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Regions
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Regions That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Regions
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Regions 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Regions
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Regions I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Regions
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 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Regions Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Regions
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "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) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Regions "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Regions
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Regions blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Regions
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Regions Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Regions
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Regions Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Regions
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Regions "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Regions
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Regions This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "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) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Regions
