My other wife is beautiful. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Sligo Town "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Sligo Town
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "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) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Sligo Town The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Sligo Town
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Sligo Town Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Sligo Town
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Sligo Town 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 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Sligo Town
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Sligo Town The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Sligo Town
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Sligo Town It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Sligo Town
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Sligo Town Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Sligo Town
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Sligo Town 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Sligo Town
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay 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 Sligo Town Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Sligo Town
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Sligo Town If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Sligo Town
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Sligo Town Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Sligo Town
