Parish of the Immaculate Conception - Ta' l-Ibrag Parish Church. Containing information regarding schedules, events and daily pastoral activities.
Alfie Ellul - Personal site detailing his various trips, including photos.
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun St. Andrew's Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower St. Andrew's
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein St. Andrew's "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw St. Andrew's
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado St. Andrew's "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really St. Andrew's
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) St. Andrew's A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm St. Andrew's
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller St. Andrew's Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) St. Andrew's
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 St. Andrew's The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) St. Andrew's
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett St. Andrew's "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine St. Andrew's
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) St. Andrew's The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous St. Andrew's
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln St. Andrew's It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) St. Andrew's
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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton St. Andrew's "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland St. Andrew's
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell St. Andrew's Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) St. Andrew's
