Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Ballynahinch Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Ballynahinch
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Ballynahinch For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Ballynahinch
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Ballynahinch A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Ballynahinch
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Ballynahinch Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Ballynahinch
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Ballynahinch I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ballynahinch
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ballynahinch "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Ballynahinch
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Ballynahinch "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ballynahinch
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ballynahinch "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Ballynahinch
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Ballynahinch Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Ballynahinch
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballynahinch Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) Ballynahinch
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Ballynahinch To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Ballynahinch
