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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Feeny Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Feeny
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Feeny "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Feeny
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Feeny Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Feeny
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Feeny Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Feeny
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein May you never leave your marriage alive. Feeny "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Feeny
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Feeny The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Feeny
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Feeny Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Feeny
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Feeny The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeny
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Feeny They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Feeny
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Feeny Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Feeny
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Feeny "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Feeny
