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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Killyclogher The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Killyclogher
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Killyclogher When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Killyclogher
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours 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 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Killyclogher Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "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) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Killyclogher
"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 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Killyclogher "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Killyclogher
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Killyclogher It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Killyclogher
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Killyclogher Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Killyclogher
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Killyclogher Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Killyclogher
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Killyclogher The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Killyclogher
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Killyclogher Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Killyclogher
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Killyclogher Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Killyclogher
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Killyclogher "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Killyclogher
