cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Irish Congress of Trade Unions "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irish Congress of Trade Unions Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Irish Congress of Trade Unions
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irish Congress of Trade Unions Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Irish Congress of Trade Unions
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Irish Congress of Trade Unions The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Irish Congress of Trade Unions "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Irish Congress of Trade Unions
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Irish Congress of Trade Unions ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Irish Congress of Trade Unions
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Irish Congress of Trade Unions "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Irish Congress of Trade Unions
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Irish Congress of Trade Unions If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Irish Congress of Trade Unions
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Irish Congress of Trade Unions If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 Irish Congress of Trade Unions
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Irish Congress of Trade Unions Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 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 Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Irish Congress of Trade Unions "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Irish Congress of Trade Unions
