You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost South Kilworth The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf South Kilworth
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi South Kilworth "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden South Kilworth
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student South Kilworth "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) South Kilworth
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung South Kilworth Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw South Kilworth
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata South Kilworth Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows South Kilworth
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t South Kilworth May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning South Kilworth
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant South Kilworth Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams South Kilworth
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) South Kilworth An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe South Kilworth
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening South Kilworth 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole South Kilworth
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling South Kilworth As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) South Kilworth
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker South Kilworth "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde South Kilworth
