St Patrick's Church - Roman Catholic church. Includes service times, and information about musical and social activities.
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Society and Culture
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Society and Culture
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Society and Culture
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Society and Culture Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "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) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Society and Culture None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Society and Culture The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Society and Culture
"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) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Society and Culture
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Society and Culture Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Society and Culture
