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If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Celtic and Folk There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Celtic and Folk
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Celtic and Folk If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Celtic and Folk
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Celtic and Folk Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Celtic and Folk
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Celtic and Folk "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Celtic and Folk
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Celtic and Folk "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Celtic and Folk
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Celtic and Folk "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Celtic and Folk
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Celtic and Folk "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Celtic and Folk
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Celtic and Folk Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Celtic and Folk
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw What's new? Most of my wife. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Celtic and Folk "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Celtic and Folk
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Celtic and Folk 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Celtic and Folk
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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun 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 first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Celtic and Folk And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Celtic and Folk
