I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Rathnew Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Rathnew
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Rathnew If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Rathnew
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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,
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Rathnew Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Rathnew
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Rathnew The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Rathnew
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Rathnew Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Rathnew
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Rathnew "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Rathnew
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Rathnew Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Rathnew
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Rathnew All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Rathnew
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Rathnew Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Rathnew
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Rathnew Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Rathnew
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Rathnew "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Rathnew
