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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Collooney We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Collooney
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Collooney "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Collooney
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Collooney Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Collooney
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 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 Collooney "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Collooney
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "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) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Collooney See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Collooney
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Collooney There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Collooney
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Collooney "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Collooney
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Collooney We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Collooney
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Collooney Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Collooney
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi What's new? Most of my wife. Collooney A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Collooney
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Collooney "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Collooney
