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Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Skidby We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Skidby
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Skidby Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Skidby
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Skidby In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Skidby
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Skidby Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Skidby
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Skidby Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Skidby
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Skidby Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Skidby
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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. Skidby "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Skidby
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Skidby Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Skidby
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Skidby If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Skidby
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Skidby Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Skidby
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Skidby To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Skidby
