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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Roscommon Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Roscommon
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Roscommon She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Roscommon
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Roscommon Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Roscommon "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Roscommon
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain 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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Roscommon One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Roscommon
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Roscommon "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Roscommon
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Roscommon "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Roscommon
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "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) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Roscommon Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Roscommon
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Roscommon When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Roscommon
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "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 Roscommon "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Roscommon
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Roscommon If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Roscommon
