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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Rathgormack If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Rathgormack Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Rathgormack
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Rathgormack The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
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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 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Rathgormack When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Rathgormack
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Rathgormack Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Rathgormack
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey Rathgormack What's new? Most of my wife. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Rathgormack
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rathgormack "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Rathgormack "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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Rathgormack
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Rathgormack The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Rathgormack
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Rathgormack
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Rathgormack The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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