Encyclopedia of the Celts - An encyclopedia of the contents of some of the greater and lesser know works of Celtic literature.
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If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Celtic Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Celtic
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Celtic 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Celtic
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Celtic "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Celtic
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Celtic Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Celtic Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Celtic
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Celtic There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Celtic
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Celtic What's new? Most of my wife. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Celtic
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "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 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 "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) Celtic You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Celtic
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. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Celtic After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Celtic
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Celtic Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Celtic
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Celtic At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Celtic
