The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Kilcroney cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kilcroney
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Kilcroney Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Kilcroney
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Kilcroney Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kilcroney
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Kilcroney "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Kilcroney
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Kilcroney If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Kilcroney
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Kilcroney "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) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Kilcroney
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Kilcroney Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Kilcroney
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Kilcroney "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Kilcroney
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kilcroney "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Kilcroney
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Kilcroney "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Kilcroney
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Kilcroney I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Kilcroney
