Stewart's law of retroaction:
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

A wedding.  A handshake.  A kiss.  A coronation.  A parade.  A
dance.  A meal.  A graduation.  A Mass.  A ritual is the performance
of an intuition, the rehearsal of a dream, the playing of a game.
        A sacrament is the breaking through of the sacred into the
profane, a ritual is the ceremonial acting out of the profane in oder
to show forth its sacredness.  
        A sacrament is God offering his holiness to men, a ritual is
men raising up the holiness of their humanity to God.
        --Frederick Buechner

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -
   Noel Coward, 1956

When the Irish say that St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland,
what they don't tell you is that he was the only one who saw any snakes! 

Imagine if there were no hypothetical situations...

- John Mendosa