One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Irvinestown "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Irvinestown
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Irvinestown America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Irvinestown
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Irvinestown I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Irvinestown
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Irvinestown "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Irvinestown
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Irvinestown Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Irvinestown As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Irvinestown
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Irvinestown Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Irvinestown
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Irvinestown No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Irvinestown
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Irvinestown If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "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 Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Irvinestown
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Irvinestown Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Irvinestown
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Irvinestown "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Irvinestown
