"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Dromara Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Dromara
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Dromara Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Dromara
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dromara The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dromara
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Dromara The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Dromara
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Dromara It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Dromara
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Dromara "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Dromara
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Dromara Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Dromara
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Dromara There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Dromara
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Dromara Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Dromara
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Dromara My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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 Dromara
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "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' I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dromara "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Dromara
