Reform Movement - Founded by Irish unionists in theRedmondite tradition. Argues that true reconciliation can be achieved only when Ireland accepts that it is closely linked to the United Kingdom socially, culturally and economically.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Organisations Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Organisations
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Organisations This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Organisations
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Organisations We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Organisations
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Organisations "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Organisations
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Organisations Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Organisations
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Organisations "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Organisations
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Organisations The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Organisations
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Organisations The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Organisations
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Organisations "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Organisations
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Organisations Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Organisations
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 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 Organisations "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Organisations
