WPB - Workers Party of Belgium. International communist movement.
FGTB - With nearly 1,200,000 members, the FGTB acts to defend the rights of all workers (socialist).
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Politics The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Politics
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Politics "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Politics
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Politics It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Politics
"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 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Politics The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Politics
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Politics blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Politics
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Man and wife make one fool. Politics
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Politics Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Politics
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Politics In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Politics
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Politics When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Politics
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 Politics
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Politics I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Politics
