Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Enniskerry It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Enniskerry
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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Enniskerry "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Enniskerry
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "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 real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Enniskerry The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Enniskerry
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Enniskerry In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Enniskerry
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Enniskerry blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Enniskerry
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 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Enniskerry We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Enniskerry
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Enniskerry "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Enniskerry
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "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) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Enniskerry Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Enniskerry
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Enniskerry Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Enniskerry
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Enniskerry "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Enniskerry
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Enniskerry Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Enniskerry
