"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Coolaney "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Coolaney
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Coolaney Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Coolaney
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Coolaney Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Coolaney
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Coolaney A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Coolaney
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Coolaney When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Coolaney
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Coolaney May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Coolaney
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Coolaney My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Coolaney
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Coolaney I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Coolaney
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Coolaney If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Coolaney
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Coolaney "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Coolaney
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Coolaney In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Coolaney
