Transalpine Redemptorists - Information about the activities and beleifs of the bi-ritual Catholic community of priests, nuns and monks based at the Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Eastchurch Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Eastchurch
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Eastchurch The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Eastchurch
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Eastchurch More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Eastchurch
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Eastchurch This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Eastchurch
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Eastchurch The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Eastchurch
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Eastchurch "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Eastchurch
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eastchurch "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Eastchurch
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Eastchurch Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Eastchurch
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Eastchurch Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Eastchurch
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "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) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Eastchurch "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Eastchurch
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Eastchurch If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Eastchurch
