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My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Cushendall "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Cushendall
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Cushendall There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Cushendall
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Cushendall I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Cushendall
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Cushendall The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Cushendall
"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) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Cushendall Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Cushendall
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Cushendall "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Cushendall
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Cushendall Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Cushendall
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Cushendall "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cushendall
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Cushendall Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Cushendall
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Cushendall Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Cushendall
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Cushendall Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Cushendall
