A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Construction and Maintenance Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Construction and Maintenance
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Construction and Maintenance In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Construction and Maintenance
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Construction and Maintenance Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Construction and Maintenance
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Construction and Maintenance "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Construction and Maintenance
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Construction and Maintenance Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Construction and Maintenance
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Construction and Maintenance
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Construction and Maintenance When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Construction and Maintenance
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Construction and Maintenance A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Construction and Maintenance
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Construction and Maintenance
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Construction and Maintenance blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Harry Shearer Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Construction and Maintenance
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Construction and Maintenance No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Construction and Maintenance
