"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Tipperary Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Tipperary
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Tipperary Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Tipperary
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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. Tipperary If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Tipperary
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tipperary Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Tipperary
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tipperary Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Tipperary
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Tipperary Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Tipperary
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Tipperary "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tipperary
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Tipperary Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Tipperary
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Tipperary By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "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) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Tipperary
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Tipperary The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Tipperary
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Tipperary Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Tipperary
