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The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Rathlin Island Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Rathlin Island
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Rathlin Island What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Rathlin Island
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Rathlin Island "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Rathlin Island
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Rathlin Island Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Rathlin Island
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Rathlin Island Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Rathlin Island
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Rathlin Island I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Rathlin Island
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Rathlin Island Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Rathlin Island
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Rathlin Island "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) What's new? Most of my wife. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Rathlin Island
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "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 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Rathlin Island A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Rathlin Island
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rathlin Island You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Rathlin Island
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Rathlin Island Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Rathlin Island
