Irish Mythology - Information on the various mythological cylces.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Folklore 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 first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Folklore
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Folklore "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Folklore
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Folklore Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Folklore
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Folklore "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Folklore
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Folklore That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Folklore
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Folklore "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Folklore
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh 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 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Folklore A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Folklore
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Folklore I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Folklore
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Folklore To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Folklore
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Folklore The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Folklore
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Folklore "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Folklore
