St Macartin's Cathedral - Information on location, activities, church people, history and an interactive photo tour.
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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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Society and Culture Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Society and Culture There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson My other wife is beautiful. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Society and Culture
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Society and Culture If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis 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 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Society and Culture "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Society and Culture
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Society and Culture You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry 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" Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Society and Culture "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Society and Culture
"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 Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 Society and Culture
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Society and Culture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture
