"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "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) Newtownards A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Newtownards
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 Newtownards "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newtownards
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Newtownards I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newtownards
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Newtownards Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Newtownards
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Newtownards What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Newtownards
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Newtownards "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Newtownards
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Newtownards "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Newtownards
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Newtownards Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Newtownards
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Newtownards The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Newtownards
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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Newtownards It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Newtownards
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Newtownards Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Newtownards
