Wedding Planner - Resource for anyone getting married in the Wexford area.
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Business and Economy Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Business and Economy There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Business and Economy Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Business and Economy
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Business and Economy Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Business and Economy
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "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 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Business and Economy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Business and Economy
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Business and Economy A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Business and Economy
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Business and Economy Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Business and Economy
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Business and Economy 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
bre "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
