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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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Shillelagh Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Shillelagh
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Shillelagh Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Shillelagh
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Shillelagh "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Shillelagh
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Shillelagh I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Shillelagh
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Shillelagh Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Shillelagh
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Shillelagh I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Shillelagh
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shillelagh Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Shillelagh
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Shillelagh The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Shillelagh
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Shillelagh Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Shillelagh
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shillelagh Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Shillelagh
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Shillelagh May you never leave your marriage alive. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Shillelagh
