Gerrys Irish Homepage - The homepage of Gerry a gay guy living in Belfast, in the North of Ireland - a look at the city where he lives, his mates and other links.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "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) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Personal Homepages Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Personal Homepages
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Personal Homepages The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Personal Homepages
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Personal Homepages When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Personal Homepages
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "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 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin ... 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
Personal Homepages "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Personal Homepages
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Personal Homepages In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Personal Homepages
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Personal Homepages Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Personal Homepages And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Personal Homepages
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Personal Homepages Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Homepages
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Personal Homepages A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Personal Homepages
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "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 "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" Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Personal Homepages Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal Homepages
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Personal Homepages It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Personal Homepages
