Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Construction and Maintenance "... 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 is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Construction and Maintenance
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Construction and Maintenance Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Construction and Maintenance
"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) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Construction and Maintenance "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Construction and Maintenance
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Construction and Maintenance "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Construction and Maintenance
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Construction and Maintenance The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Construction and Maintenance
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 don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Construction and Maintenance He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Construction and Maintenance
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Construction and Maintenance "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Construction and Maintenance
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "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 Construction and Maintenance 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 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Construction and Maintenance
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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Construction and Maintenance "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Construction and Maintenance
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Construction and Maintenance Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Construction and Maintenance
