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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "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) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 1916 Easter Uprising The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "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 1916 Easter Uprising
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 1916 Easter Uprising And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 1916 Easter Uprising
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 1916 Easter Uprising Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 1916 Easter Uprising
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 1916 Easter Uprising "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 1916 Easter Uprising
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 1916 Easter Uprising Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) 1916 Easter Uprising
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown 1916 Easter Uprising What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 1916 Easter Uprising
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 1916 Easter Uprising "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman 1916 Easter Uprising
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 1916 Easter Uprising In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "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 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart 1916 Easter Uprising
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "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 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 1916 Easter Uprising "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 1916 Easter Uprising
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 1916 Easter Uprising The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 1916 Easter Uprising
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 1916 Easter Uprising The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 1916 Easter Uprising
