He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Ballywalter The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ballywalter
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Ballywalter "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Ballywalter
"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) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 "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) Ballywalter "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Ballywalter
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Ballywalter A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Ballywalter
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ballywalter Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Ballywalter
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Ballywalter Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Ballywalter
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballywalter Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Ballywalter
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Ballywalter We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Ballywalter
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Ballywalter "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Ballywalter
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Ballywalter The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballywalter
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Ballywalter Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ballywalter
