Mick Burkes Homepage - A native of Templemore, information about his home and family life and area.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Templemore "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) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Templemore
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Templemore "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Templemore
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "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.) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Templemore "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Templemore
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Templemore Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Templemore
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Templemore "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Templemore
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Templemore "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Templemore
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Templemore Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Templemore
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Templemore The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Templemore
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "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 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Templemore Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Templemore
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Templemore Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Templemore
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Templemore All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Templemore
