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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "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) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kilkeel If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kilkeel
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kilkeel Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Kilkeel
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Kilkeel "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Kilkeel
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Kilkeel "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) What's new? Most of my wife. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Kilkeel
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Kilkeel "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Kilkeel
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Kilkeel Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Kilkeel
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "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) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Kilkeel The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Kilkeel
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Kilkeel "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Kilkeel
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kilkeel "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Kilkeel
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "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) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Kilkeel We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Kilkeel
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Kilkeel How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Kilkeel
