"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Maghery Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Maghery
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Maghery Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Maghery
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Maghery I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Maghery
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'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Maghery "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Maghery
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Maghery "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Maghery
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Maghery If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maghery
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Maghery Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maghery
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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Maghery The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Maghery
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Maghery He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Maghery
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Maghery The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Maghery
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Maghery "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Maghery
