Equality Authority - The Equality Authority of Ireland works towards the elimination of discrimination in employment, in the provision of goods and services, education, property and other opportunities to which the public generally have access.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Equality and Law Reform I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Equality and Law Reform
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Equality and Law Reform Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Equality and Law Reform
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Equality and Law Reform Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 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. Equality and Law Reform
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Equality and Law Reform If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Equality and Law Reform
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Equality and Law Reform The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Equality and Law Reform
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Equality and Law Reform We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Equality and Law Reform
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Equality and Law Reform "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Equality and Law Reform
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Equality and Law Reform "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Equality and Law Reform
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Equality and Law Reform I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Equality and Law Reform
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Equality and Law Reform "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) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Equality and Law Reform
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Equality and Law Reform If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Equality and Law Reform
