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 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Downpatrick Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Downpatrick
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Downpatrick It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Downpatrick
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "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) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Downpatrick Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Downpatrick
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Downpatrick "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Downpatrick
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Downpatrick 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 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Downpatrick
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Downpatrick The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Downpatrick
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Downpatrick Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Downpatrick
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Downpatrick We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Downpatrick
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Downpatrick Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Downpatrick
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Downpatrick It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Downpatrick
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Downpatrick That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Downpatrick
