Diocese of Ferns - Accounting for most of Wexford and part of Wicklow, this Catholic diocese presents history, reflections and prayer resources, parishes, personnel, calendar, and notes on publications and music.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Society and Culture If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Society and Culture
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Society and Culture The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society and Culture
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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 know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Society and Culture
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Society and Culture
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Society and Culture Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Society and Culture Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Society and Culture
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Society and Culture
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Society and Culture
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 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Society and Culture Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Society and Culture
