Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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-- Sacha Guitry "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Cashel
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Cashel There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Cashel
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Cashel "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Cashel
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cashel When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Cashel
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Cashel The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Cashel
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cashel Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Cashel
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Cashel "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Cashel
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Cashel The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Cashel "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Cashel
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Cashel Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Cashel
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Cashel Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Cashel
