The Bahá'à in Ireland - Facts and principles, details of writings, history and contacts related to the Baha'i faith, from the community in Ireland.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Bahai "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Bahai
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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Bahai It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Bahai
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Bahai Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Bahai
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Bahai A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Bahai
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Bahai A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bahai
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Bahai "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Bahai
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "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) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Bahai Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Bahai
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Bahai Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Bahai
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Bahai History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Bahai
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Bahai Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Bahai
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 Bahai "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Bahai
