Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Sligo Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Sligo
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Sligo The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Sligo
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Sligo "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Sligo
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Sligo your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Sligo
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Sligo The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Sligo
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Sligo LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Sligo
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Sligo "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sligo
"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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Sligo My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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" Sligo
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "... 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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Sligo "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 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sligo
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Sligo In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 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 Sligo
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Sligo "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" 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
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