O'Reilly Family Tree - Based on the late Edward O'Reilly, of Catherinestown, Gaybrook, Mullingar, descendants and ancestors.
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Mullingar "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mullingar
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Mullingar I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Mullingar
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 Mullingar "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mullingar
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 Nietzsche An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Mullingar Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Mullingar
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mullingar You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mullingar
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Mullingar I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Mullingar
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "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) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Mullingar To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Mullingar
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Mullingar "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Mullingar
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, "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mullingar I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Mullingar
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Mullingar Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Mullingar
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Mullingar "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Mullingar
