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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Armagh "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Armagh
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Armagh No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Armagh
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "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 If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Armagh It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Armagh
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Armagh Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex What's new? Most of my wife. Armagh
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Armagh They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Armagh
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Armagh Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Armagh
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "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) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Armagh "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Armagh
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Armagh When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Armagh
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Armagh "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost 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 Armagh
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Armagh "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Armagh
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Armagh "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Armagh
