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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Clonmellon Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Clonmellon
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Clonmellon Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Clonmellon
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Clonmellon Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Clonmellon
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Clonmellon Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Clonmellon
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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Clonmellon Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Clonmellon
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "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) Clonmellon "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Clonmellon
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Clonmellon "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Clonmellon
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Clonmellon Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Clonmellon
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Clonmellon "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Clonmellon
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Clonmellon A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Clonmellon
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Clonmellon "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Clonmellon
