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Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Ballymote In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Ballymote
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Ballymote I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Ballymote
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Ballymote Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach 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 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Ballymote
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Ballymote People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Ballymote
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ballymote The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Ballymote
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Ballymote A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Ballymote
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 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Ballymote There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Ballymote
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Ballymote As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Ballymote
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Ballymote "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Ballymote
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Ballymote Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ballymote
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Ballymote 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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Ballymote
