Tom Murphy - Sculptor who has created many public works of art. Information about projects including his Liverpool Heroes series.
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis He who awaits much can expect little.
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-- Philip K. Dick Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Arts and Entertainment
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Arts and Entertainment Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I would have made a good Pope.
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"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Arts and Entertainment Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Arts and Entertainment
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment "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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Arts and Entertainment
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
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read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Arts and Entertainment The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Arts and Entertainment A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
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