Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Athlone "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Athlone
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Athlone Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Athlone
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Athlone "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Athlone Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Athlone
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Athlone "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Athlone
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Athlone I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Athlone It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Athlone
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Athlone "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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) Athlone
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Athlone No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Athlone
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Athlone If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Athlone
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Athlone Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Athlone
