The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Ballyknockan "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Ballyknockan
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Ballyknockan Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "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) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Ballyknockan
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Ballyknockan Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballyknockan
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Ballyknockan "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Ballyknockan
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "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) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Ballyknockan Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ballyknockan
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Ballyknockan Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ballyknockan
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Ballyknockan You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Ballyknockan
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Ballyknockan Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Ballyknockan
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Ballyknockan If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Ballyknockan
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Ballyknockan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Ballyknockan
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ballyknockan Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Ballyknockan
